diff --git a/xorg/mesa/build b/xorg/mesa/build
index facbb048..9eaf2414 100755
--- a/xorg/mesa/build
+++ b/xorg/mesa/build
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
+patch -p1 < mesa-no-gettext.patch
+
 meson \
     --prefix=/usr \
     --sysconfdir=/etc \
diff --git a/xorg/mesa/checksums b/xorg/mesa/checksums
index 78a9b917..7bc6854f 100644
--- a/xorg/mesa/checksums
+++ b/xorg/mesa/checksums
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 72114b16b4a84373b2acda060fe2bb1d45ea2598efab3ef2d44bdeda74f15581  mesa-19.1.1.tar.xz
+9f434a4788f5303724ae38786b7ddd7493fdf666283997a977e4a66a25034ee0  mesa-no-gettext.patch
diff --git a/xorg/mesa/depends b/xorg/mesa/depends
index 5d61bfe2..94b236cc 100644
--- a/xorg/mesa/depends
+++ b/xorg/mesa/depends
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 bison        make
 expat
 flex         make
-gettext      make
 libX11
 libXdamage
 libXext
diff --git a/xorg/mesa/patches/mesa-no-gettext.patch b/xorg/mesa/patches/mesa-no-gettext.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..498909c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xorg/mesa/patches/mesa-no-gettext.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff --git a/src/util/xmlpool/meson.build b/src/util/xmlpool/meson.build
+index 81184fa..b2dfba2 100644
+--- a/src/util/xmlpool/meson.build
++++ b/src/util/xmlpool/meson.build
+@@ -35,6 +35,3 @@ xmlpool_options_h = custom_target(
+   ],
+   depend_files : _langs_po_files,
+ )
+-
+-i18n = import('i18n')
+-i18n.gettext('xmlpool', install : false)
diff --git a/xorg/mesa/sources b/xorg/mesa/sources
index 547a5bfa..99420e3c 100644
--- a/xorg/mesa/sources
+++ b/xorg/mesa/sources
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-19.1.1.tar.xz
+patches/mesa-no-gettext.patch