diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/cppunit/cppunit_1.14.0.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/cppunit/cppunit_1.15.1.bb
similarity index 78%
rename from meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/cppunit/cppunit_1.14.0.bb
rename to meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/cppunit/cppunit_1.15.1.bb
index 0432786..92db31e 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/cppunit/cppunit_1.14.0.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/cppunit/cppunit_1.15.1.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/cppunit-${PV}.tar.gz \
     file://0001-doc-Makefile.am-do-not-preserve-file-flags-when-copy.patch \
 "
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "7ad93022171710a541bfe4bfd8b4a381"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3d569869d27b48860210c758c4f313082103a5e58219a7669b52bfd29d674780"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "9dc669e6145cadd9674873e24943e6dd"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "89c5c6665337f56fd2db36bc3805a5619709d51fb136e51937072f63fcc717a7"
 
 inherit autotools
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest/0001-Fix-build-on-32bit-arches-with-64bit-time_t.patch b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest/0001-Fix-build-on-32bit-arches-with-64bit-time_t.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..706322d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest/0001-Fix-build-on-32bit-arches-with-64bit-time_t.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From fa57c78c33d26084f85f1a6b4c29378631dc9395 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 11:58:58 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix build on 32bit arches with 64bit time_t
+
+time element is deprecated on new input_event structure in kernel's
+input.h [1]
+
+[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=152194fe9c3f
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/evtest/merge_requests/6]
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+---
+ evtest.c | 7 ++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/evtest.c b/evtest.c
+index 548c203..93063cd 100644
+--- a/evtest.c
++++ b/evtest.c
+@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@
+ #include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <unistd.h>
+ 
++#ifndef input_event_sec
++#define input_event_sec time.tv_sec
++#define input_event_usec time.tv_usec
++#endif
++
+ #define BITS_PER_LONG (sizeof(long) * 8)
+ #define NBITS(x) ((((x)-1)/BITS_PER_LONG)+1)
+ #define OFF(x)  ((x)%BITS_PER_LONG)
+@@ -1140,7 +1145,7 @@ static int print_events(int fd)
+ 			type = ev[i].type;
+ 			code = ev[i].code;
+ 
+-			printf("Event: time %ld.%06ld, ", ev[i].time.tv_sec, ev[i].time.tv_usec);
++			printf("Event: time %ld.%06ld, ", ev[i].input_event_sec, ev[i].input_event_sec);
+ 
+ 			if (type == EV_SYN) {
+ 				if (code == SYN_MT_REPORT)
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest_1.34.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest_1.34.bb
index 3b6dc61..a3a23c8 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest_1.34.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest_1.34.bb
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@
 DEPENDS = "libxml2"
 
 SRCREV = "16e5104127a620686bdddc4a9ad62881134d6c69"
-SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/evtest;protocol=git \
-           file://add_missing_limits_h_include.patch"
+SRC_URI = "git://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/evtest.git;protocol=https \
+           file://add_missing_limits_h_include.patch \
+           file://0001-Fix-build-on-32bit-arches-with-64bit-time_t.patch \
+           "
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/googletest/googletest_git.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/googletest/googletest_git.bb
index b675ea0..354e7de 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/googletest/googletest_git.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/googletest/googletest_git.bb
@@ -21,3 +21,11 @@
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev += "${PN}-staticdev"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    # explicitly use python3
+    # the scripts are already python3 compatible since https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/d404af0d987a9c38cafce82a7e26ec8468c88361 and other fixes like this
+    # but since this oe-core change http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=5f8f16b17f66966ae91aeabc23e97de5ecd17447
+    # there isn't python in HOSTTOOLS so "env python" fails
+    sed -i 's@^#!/usr/bin/env python$@#!/usr/bin/env python3@g' ${S}/googlemock/scripts/*py ${S}/googlemock/scripts/generator/*py ${S}/googlemock/scripts/generator/cpp/*py ${S}/googlemock/test/*py ${S}/googletest/scripts/*py ${S}/googletest/test/*py
+}