diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/ninja/ninja/fix-musl.patch b/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/ninja/ninja/fix-musl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..543d4f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/ninja/ninja/fix-musl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+2ff54ad7478a90bd75c91e434236a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: makepost <makepost@firemail.cc>
+Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:13:16 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Use st_mtim if st_mtime is macro, fix #1510
+
+In POSIX.1-2008, sys_stat has a st_mtim member and a st_mtime backward
+compatibility macro. Should help avoid hardcoding platform detection.
+---
+ src/disk_interface.cc | 14 ++++----------
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/disk_interface.cc b/src/disk_interface.cc
+index d4c2fb087..dc297c449 100644
+--- src/disk_interface.cc
++++ /src/disk_interface.cc
+@@ -202,19 +202,13 @@ TimeStamp RealDiskInterface::Stat(const string& path, string* err) const {
+   // that it doesn't exist.
+   if (st.st_mtime == 0)
+     return 1;
+-#if defined(__APPLE__) && !defined(_POSIX_C_SOURCE)
++#if defined(_AIX)
++  return (int64_t)st.st_mtime * 1000000000LL + st.st_mtime_n;
++#elif defined(__APPLE__)
+   return ((int64_t)st.st_mtimespec.tv_sec * 1000000000LL +
+           st.st_mtimespec.tv_nsec);
+-#elif (_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700 || defined(_BSD_SOURCE) || defined(_SVID_SOURCE) || \
+-       defined(__BIONIC__) || (defined (__SVR4) && defined (__sun)) || defined(__FreeBSD__))
+-  // For glibc, see "Timestamp files" in the Notes of http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/stat.2.html
+-  // newlib, uClibc and musl follow the kernel (or Cygwin) headers and define the right macro values above.
+-  // For bsd, see https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/sys/stat.h and similar
+-  // For bionic, C and POSIX API is always enabled.
+-  // For solaris, see https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37841/stat-2.html.
++#elif defined(st_mtime) // A macro, so we're likely on modern POSIX.
+   return (int64_t)st.st_mtim.tv_sec * 1000000000LL + st.st_mtim.tv_nsec;
+-#elif defined(_AIX)
+-  return (int64_t)st.st_mtime * 1000000000LL + st.st_mtime_n;
+ #else
+   return (int64_t)st.st_mtime * 1000000000LL + st.st_mtimensec;
+ #endif
diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/ninja/ninja_1.8.2.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/ninja/ninja_1.9.0.bb
similarity index 86%
rename from poky/meta/recipes-devtools/ninja/ninja_1.8.2.bb
rename to poky/meta/recipes-devtools/ninja/ninja_1.9.0.bb
index c6fcfef..1b06328 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/ninja/ninja_1.8.2.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/ninja/ninja_1.9.0.bb
@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@
 
 DEPENDS = "re2c-native ninja-native"
 
-SRCREV = "253e94c1fa511704baeb61cf69995bbf09ba435e"
+SRCREV = "b25c08bda4949192c69cea4cee057887341a2ffc"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/ninja-build/ninja.git;branch=release"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/ninja-build/ninja.git;branch=release \
+           file://fix-musl.patch \
+"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "v(?P<pver>.*)"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"