diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_8.1.1017.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_8.1.1240.bb
similarity index 79%
rename from poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_8.1.1017.bb
rename to poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_8.1.1240.bb
index 8b1fb7b..7446483 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_8.1.1017.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_8.1.1240.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 PACKAGECONFIG += "tiny"
 
 do_install() {
-    install -D -m 0755 ${S}/vim ${D}/${bindir}/vim.tiny
+    install -D -m 0755 ${S}/src/vim ${D}/${bindir}/vim.tiny
 }
 
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "90"
diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_8.1.1017.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_8.1.1240.bb
similarity index 82%
rename from poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_8.1.1017.bb
rename to poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_8.1.1240.bb
index 7627d28..f5c7468 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_8.1.1017.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_8.1.1240.bb
@@ -6,16 +6,16 @@
 # vimdiff doesn't like busybox diff
 RSUGGESTS_${PN} = "diffutils"
 LICENSE = "vim"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../runtime/doc/uganda.txt;endline=287;md5=f1f82b42360005c70b8c19b0ef493f72"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://runtime/doc/uganda.txt;endline=287;md5=f1f82b42360005c70b8c19b0ef493f72"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/vim/vim.git \
-           file://disable_acl_header_check.patch;patchdir=.. \
-           file://vim-add-knob-whether-elf.h-are-checked.patch;patchdir=.. \
-           file://0001-src-Makefile-improve-reproducibility.patch;patchdir=.. \
+           file://disable_acl_header_check.patch \
+           file://vim-add-knob-whether-elf.h-are-checked.patch \
+           file://0001-src-Makefile-improve-reproducibility.patch \
 "
-SRCREV = "493fbe4abee660d30b4f2aef87b754b0a720213c"
+SRCREV = "d96dbd6f95ea22f609042cc9c6272f14a21ff1a5"
 
-S = "${WORKDIR}/git/src"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
 VIMDIR = "vim${@d.getVar('PV').split('.')[0]}${@d.getVar('PV').split('.')[1]}"
 
@@ -25,13 +25,25 @@
 
 # vim configure.in contains functions which got 'dropped' by autotools.bbclass
 do_configure () {
+    cd src
     rm -f auto/*
     touch auto/config.mk
     aclocal
     autoconf
+    cd ..
     oe_runconf
-    touch auto/configure
-    touch auto/config.mk auto/config.h
+    touch src/auto/configure
+    touch src/auto/config.mk src/auto/config.h
+}
+
+do_compile() {
+    # We do not support fully / correctly the following locales.  Attempting
+    # to use these with msgfmt in order to update the ".desktop" files exposes
+    # this problem and leads to the compile failing.
+    for LOCALE in cs fr ko pl sk zh_CN zh_TW;do
+        echo -n > src/po/${LOCALE}.po
+    done
+    autotools_do_compile
 }
 
 #Available PACKAGECONFIG options are gtkgui, acl, x11, tiny
@@ -76,7 +88,7 @@
     chmod -x ${D}${datadir}/${BPN}/${VIMDIR}/tools/*.py
 
     # Install example vimrc from runtime files
-    install -m 0644 ../runtime/vimrc_example.vim ${D}/${datadir}/${BPN}/vimrc
+    install -m 0644 runtime/vimrc_example.vim ${D}/${datadir}/${BPN}/vimrc
 
     # we use --with-features=big as default
     mv ${D}${bindir}/${BPN} ${D}${bindir}/${BPN}.${BPN}