diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers-7.6/have_strerror.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers-7.6/have_strerror.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4cc554f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers-7.6/have_strerror.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+
+diff -ruN tcp_wrappers_7.6.orig/percent_m.c tcp_wrappers_7.6/percent_m.c
+--- tcp_wrappers_7.6.orig/percent_m.c	1994-12-28 17:42:37.000000000 +0100
++++ tcp_wrappers_7.6/percent_m.c	2003-08-21 02:45:31.000000000 +0200
+@@ -29,11 +29,15 @@
+ 
+     while (*bp = *cp)
+ 	if (*cp == '%' && cp[1] == 'm') {
++#ifdef HAVE_STRERROR
++	    strcpy(bp, strerror(errno));
++#else
+ 	    if (errno < sys_nerr && errno > 0) {
+ 		strcpy(bp, sys_errlist[errno]);
+ 	    } else {
+ 		sprintf(bp, "Unknown error %d", errno);
+ 	    }
++#endif
+ 	    bp += strlen(bp);
+ 	    cp += 2;
+ 	} else {