diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/110-enable-zlib.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/110-enable-zlib.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb92a19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/110-enable-zlib.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Enable zlib in python
+
+-Khem
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [OE-Specific]
+
+---
+ Modules/Setup.dist |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/Modules/Setup.dist
++++ b/Modules/Setup.dist
+@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ _symtable symtablemodule.c
+ # Andrew Kuchling's zlib module.
+ # This require zlib 1.1.3 (or later).
+ # See http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
+-#zlib zlibmodule.c -I$(prefix)/include -L$(exec_prefix)/lib -lz
++zlib zlibmodule.c -lz
+ 
+ # Interface to the Expat XML parser
+ #