diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte-0.28.2/obsolete_automake_macros.patch b/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte-0.28.2/obsolete_automake_macros.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6763d37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte-0.28.2/obsolete_automake_macros.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691545]
+
+Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
+diff -Nurd vte-0.28.2/gnome-pty-helper/configure.in vte-0.28.2/gnome-pty-helper/configure.in
+--- vte-0.28.2/gnome-pty-helper/configure.in	2010-07-15 20:08:44.000000000 +0300
++++ vte-0.28.2/gnome-pty-helper/configure.in	2013-01-11 14:50:34.971027440 +0200
+@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
+ AC_ISC_POSIX
+ AC_PROG_CC
+ AC_STDC_HEADERS
+-AM_PROG_CC_STDC
+
+ if test -z "$enable_maintainer_mode"; then
+   enable_maintainer_mode=yes
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte.inc b/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..874062a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+SUMMARY = "Virtual terminal emulator GTK+ widget library"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=vte"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.0"
+DEPENDS = " glib-2.0 gtk+ intltool-native ncurses gobject-introspection-stub"
+RDEPENDS_libvte = "vte-termcap"
+
+inherit gnome gtk-doc
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-python --disable-introspection"
+
+PACKAGES =+ "libvte vte-termcap"
+FILES_libvte = "${libdir}/*.so.* ${libexecdir}/gnome-pty-helper"
+FILES_${PN}-dbg =+ "${libexecdir}/.debug ${prefix}/src ${bindir}/.debug \
+               ${libdir}/.debug"
+FILES_vte-termcap = "${datadir}/vte/termcap-0.0"
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte_0.28.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte_0.28.2.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b1025cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte_0.28.2.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+require vte.inc
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3bf50002aefd002f49e7bb854063f7e7"
+
+PR = "r6"
+
+SRC_URI += "file://obsolete_automake_macros.patch"
+
+CFLAGS += "-D_GNU_SOURCE"
+
+SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "497f26e457308649e6ece32b3bb142ff"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "86cf0b81aa023fa93ed415653d51c96767f20b2d7334c893caba71e42654b0ae"
+
+RECIPE_NO_UPDATE_REASON = "matchbox-terminal needs to be ported over to new vte first"