diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.0/mpfr_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch b/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.0/mpfr_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b0a24aa3e..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.0/mpfr_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
-this patch avoids these issues with automake 1.12
-
-| configure.ac:304: error: automatic de-ANSI-fication support has been removed
-| tests/Makefile.am:12: error: automatic de-ANSI-fication support has been removed
-
-Signed-Off-By: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@.intel.com>
-2012/05/02
-
-Index: mpfr-3.1.0/configure.ac
-===================================================================
---- mpfr-3.1.0.orig/configure.ac
-+++ mpfr-3.1.0/configure.ac
-@@ -301,7 +301,6 @@ if test "$test_CFLAGS" != set && test -n
- fi
- 
- AM_PROG_CC_C_O
--AM_C_PROTOTYPES
- 
- case $host in
-   *-apple-darwin*)
-Index: mpfr-3.1.0/tests/Makefile.am
-===================================================================
---- mpfr-3.1.0.orig/tests/Makefile.am
-+++ mpfr-3.1.0/tests/Makefile.am
-@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
- # PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- 
- 
--AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.6 gnu $(top_builddir)/ansi2knr
-+AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.6 gnu
- 
- # tversion is run
- #   * at the beginning so that the user gets a possible version error
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.0/long-long-thumb.patch b/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.1/long-long-thumb.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.0/long-long-thumb.patch
rename to meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.1/long-long-thumb.patch
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr_3.1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr_3.1.1.bb
similarity index 65%
rename from meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr_3.1.0.bb
rename to meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr_3.1.1.bb
index e7e20cefbc..7f34e7141b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr_3.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr_3.1.1.bb
@@ -3,15 +3,14 @@ LICENSE="GPLv3&LGPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
 		    file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=6a6a8e020838b23406c81b19c1d46df6"
 DEPENDS = "gmp"
-PR = "r2"
+PR = "r0"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-${PV}/mpfr-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
            file://long-long-thumb.patch \
-           file://mpfr_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch \
            "
 
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "238ae4a15cc3a5049b723daef5d17938"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "74a7bbbad168dd1cc414f1c9210b8fc16ccfc8e422d34b3371a8978e31eab680"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "e90e0075bb1b5f626c6e31aaa9c64e3b"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7b66c3f13dc8385f08264c805853f3e1a8eedab8071d582f3e661971c9acd5fd"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/mpfr-${PV}"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"