diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-doc-utils/sysrooted-pkg-config.patch b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-doc-utils/sysrooted-pkg-config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e17e8b4ec3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-doc-utils/sysrooted-pkg-config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+In cross environment we have to prepend the sysroot to the path found by
+pkgconfig since the path returned from pkgconfig does not have sysroot prefixed
+it ends up using the files from host system. Now usually people have gnome installed
+so the build succeeds but if you dont have gnome installed on build host then
+it wont find the files on host system and packages using gnome-doc-utils wont
+compile.
+
+This should work ok with non sysrooted builds too since in those cases PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
+will be empty
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+
+Index: gnome-doc-utils-0.20.6/tools/gnome-doc-utils.make
+===================================================================
+--- gnome-doc-utils-0.20.6.orig/tools/gnome-doc-utils.make	2011-09-23 22:22:26.000000000 -0700
++++ gnome-doc-utils-0.20.6/tools/gnome-doc-utils.make	2011-09-23 22:30:03.479787196 -0700
+@@ -133,12 +133,12 @@ _DOC_ABS_SRCDIR = @abs_srcdir@
+ _xml2po ?= `which xml2po`
+ _xml2po_mode = $(if $(DOC_ID),mallard,docbook)
+ 
+-_db2html ?= `$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable db2html gnome-doc-utils`
+-_db2omf  ?= `$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable db2omf gnome-doc-utils`
+-_malrng  ?= `$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable malrng gnome-doc-utils`
+-_chunks  ?= `$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable xmldir gnome-doc-utils`/gnome/xslt/docbook/utils/chunks.xsl
+-_credits ?= `$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable xmldir gnome-doc-utils`/gnome/xslt/docbook/utils/credits.xsl
+-_ids ?= $(shell $(PKG_CONFIG) --variable xmldir gnome-doc-utils)/gnome/xslt/docbook/utils/ids.xsl
++_db2html ?= ${PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR}`$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable db2html gnome-doc-utils`
++_db2omf  ?= ${PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR}`$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable db2omf gnome-doc-utils`
++_malrng  ?= ${PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR}`$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable malrng gnome-doc-utils`
++_chunks  ?= ${PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR}`$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable xmldir gnome-doc-utils`/gnome/xslt/docbook/utils/chunks.xsl
++_credits ?= ${PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR}`$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable xmldir gnome-doc-utils`/gnome/xslt/docbook/utils/credits.xsl
++_ids ?= ${PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR}$(shell $(PKG_CONFIG) --variable xmldir gnome-doc-utils)/gnome/xslt/docbook/utils/ids.xsl
+ 
+ if ENABLE_SK
+ _ENABLE_SK = true
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-doc-utils_0.20.6.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-doc-utils_0.20.6.bb
index c65cf640ba..9e3d4c445e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-doc-utils_0.20.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-doc-utils_0.20.6.bb
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 require gnome-doc-utils.inc
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.GPL;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a \
 		    file://COPYING.LGPL;md5=a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343"
-PR = "r5"
+PR = "r6"
 
 SRC_URI += "file://xsltproc_nonet.patch \
-	    file://use-usr-bin-env-for-python-in-xml2po.patch"
+	    file://use-usr-bin-env-for-python-in-xml2po.patch \
+            file://sysrooted-pkg-config.patch \
+           "
 
 SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "8f6e05071599bc073007830ea0a68391"
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "091486e370480bf45349ad09dac799211092a02938b26a0d68206172cb6cebbf"