diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle-3.4/check-header-files-of-openssl-only-if-enable_.patch b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle-3.4/check-header-files-of-openssl-only-if-enable_.patch
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+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle-3.4/check-header-files-of-openssl-only-if-enable_.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From ffee6b5f6204a0210f717968ec6ce514d70acca1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Haiqing Bai <Haiqing.Bai@windriver.com>
+Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:23:17 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] nettle: check header files of openssl only if
+ 'enable_openssl=yes'.
+
+The original configure script checks openssl header files to generate
+config.h even if 'enable_openssl' is not set to yes, this made inconsistent
+building for nettle.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+Signed-off-by: Haiqing Bai <Haiqing.Bai@windriver.com>
+
+refactored for 3.4. pending not in as of 3.4
+
+Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
+
+Index: nettle-3.4/configure.ac
+===================================================================
+--- nettle-3.4.orig/configure.ac
++++ nettle-3.4/configure.ac
+@@ -185,9 +185,11 @@ AC_HEADER_TIME
+ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(long)
+ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(size_t)
+ 
+-AC_CHECK_HEADERS([openssl/evp.h openssl/ecdsa.h],,
+-[enable_openssl=no
+- break])
++if test "x$enable_openssl" = "xyes"; then
++  AC_CHECK_HEADERS([openssl/evp.h openssl/ecdsa.h],,
++  [enable_openssl=no
++   break])
++fi
+ 
+ # For use by the testsuite
+ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([valgrind/memcheck.h])