diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr/0001-gcr-meson.build-fix-one-parallel-build-failure.patch b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr/0001-gcr-meson.build-fix-one-parallel-build-failure.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81c4bdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr/0001-gcr-meson.build-fix-one-parallel-build-failure.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From cb3708bad88e713e4ccf705cb8c14c5996cd9d06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
+Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 16:32:38 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] gcr/meson.build: fix one parallel build failure
+
+ui/gcr-live-search.c includes gcr/gcr-marshal.h. Because missing
+dependency, following error occurred intermittently during doing parallel
+build:
+
+ -o ui/libgcr-ui-3.so.1.0.0.p/gcr-live-search.c.o -c ../gcr-3.38.1/ui/gcr-live-search.c
+../gcr-3.38.1/ui/gcr-live-search.c:32:10: fatal error: gcr/gcr-marshal.h: No such file or directory
+   32 | #include "gcr/gcr-marshal.h"
+      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+compilation terminated.
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gcr/-/merge_requests/68/diffs]
+
+Signed-off-by: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
+---
+ gcr/meson.build | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/gcr/meson.build b/gcr/meson.build
+index 06c3a63..d9d4b8f 100644
+--- a/gcr/meson.build
++++ b/gcr/meson.build
+@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ gcr_base_dep = declare_dependency(
+   sources: [
+     gcr_enums_gen[1],
+     gcr_oids[1],
++    gcr_marshal_gen[1],
+   ],
+ )
+ 
+-- 
+2.17.1
+
diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.38.1.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.40.0.bb
similarity index 88%
rename from poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.38.1.bb
rename to poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.40.0.bb
index 563087a..14072ef 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.38.1.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.40.0.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
 GTKDOC_MESON_OPTION = "gtk_doc"
 inherit gnomebase gtk-icon-cache gtk-doc features_check upstream-version-is-even vala gobject-introspection gettext mime mime-xdg
 
-SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "17fcaf9c4a93a65fb1c72b82643bb102c13344084687d5886ea66313868d9ec9"
+SRC_URI += "file://0001-gcr-meson.build-fix-one-parallel-build-failure.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "b9d3645a5fd953a54285cc64d4fc046736463dbd4dcc25caf5c7b59bed3027f5"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', 'gtk', '', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[gtk] = "-Dgtk=true,-Dgtk=false,gtk+3"