diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.6.1.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.6.1.bb
index 0dd8f02..f7d827a 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.6.1.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.6.1.bb
@@ -19,10 +19,9 @@
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "bd502b9a8670a8012c4d90c31a84955f"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b65e40713da57d004123b6319828be7f1273fbc6490e145874ee1177e112c459"
 
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-apr=${STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS}/apr-1-config \ 
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-apr=${STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS}/apr-1-config \
 		--without-odbc \
 		--without-pgsql \
-		--with-dbm=gdbm \
 		--without-sqlite2 \
 		--with-expat=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix}"
 
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@
 PACKAGECONFIG[ldap] = "--with-ldap,--without-ldap,openldap"
 PACKAGECONFIG[crypto] = "--with-openssl=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix} --with-crypto,--without-crypto,openssl"
 PACKAGECONFIG[sqlite3] = "--with-sqlite3=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix},--without-sqlite3,sqlite3"
-PACKAGECONFIG[gdbm] = "--with-gdbm=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix},--without-gdbm,gdbm"
+PACKAGECONFIG[gdbm] = "--with-dbm=gdbm --with-gdbm=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix},--without-gdbm,gdbm"
 
 #files ${libdir}/apr-util-1/*.so are not symlinks but loadable modules thus they are packaged in ${PN}
 FILES_${PN}     += "${libdir}/apr-util-1/apr*${SOLIBS} ${libdir}/apr-util-1/apr*${SOLIBSDEV}"
diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr/autoconf270.patch b/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr/autoconf270.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9f7b5c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr/autoconf270.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+With autoconf 2.70 confdefs.h is already included. Including it twice generates
+compiler warnings and since this macros is to error on warnings, it breaks.
+
+Fix by not including the file.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+RP - 2021/1/28
+
+Index: apr-1.7.0/build/apr_common.m4
+===================================================================
+--- apr-1.7.0.orig/build/apr_common.m4
++++ apr-1.7.0/build/apr_common.m4
+@@ -505,8 +505,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([APR_TRY_COMPILE_NO_WARNING],
+  fi
+  AC_COMPILE_IFELSE(
+   [AC_LANG_SOURCE(
+-   [#include "confdefs.h"
+-   ]
++   []
+    [[$1]]
+    [int main(int argc, const char *const *argv) {]
+    [[$2]]
diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.7.0.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.7.0.bb
index 7073af8..f879e28 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.7.0.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.7.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 SUMMARY = "Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library"
+DESCRIPTION = "The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a supporting library for the \
+Apache web server. It provides a set of APIs that map to the underlying \
+operating system (OS). Where the OS does not support a particular function, \
+APR will provide an emulation."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://apr.apache.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "util-linux"
@@ -19,6 +23,7 @@
            file://0007-explicitly-link-libapr-against-phtread-to-make-gold-.patch \
            file://libtoolize_check.patch \
            file://0001-Add-option-to-disable-timed-dependant-tests.patch \
+           file://autoconf270.patch \
            "
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "7a14a83d664e87599ea25ff4432e48a7"