diff --git a/system/boot/plymouth/files/0.9.3-glibc-sysmacros.patch b/system/boot/plymouth/files/0.9.3-glibc-sysmacros.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8969161bb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/boot/plymouth/files/0.9.3-glibc-sysmacros.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+From f8d7813b32dfe129d1e5718719ee3eff131f4fac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kjell Claesson <kjell.claesson@epost.tidanet.se>
+Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:25:56 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix build with newer glibc
+
+Signed-off-by: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
+---
+ configure.ac                          | 1 +
+ src/libply-splash-core/ply-terminal.c | 8 ++++++++
+ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index c32697f..8376789 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-tools)
+ 
+ AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
+ AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
++AC_HEADER_MAJOR
+ AC_PROG_AWK
+ AC_PROG_CC_STDC
+ AM_PROG_CC_C_O
+diff --git a/src/libply-splash-core/ply-terminal.c b/src/libply-splash-core/ply-terminal.c
+index a0954f2..ef62bf8 100644
+--- a/src/libply-splash-core/ply-terminal.c
++++ b/src/libply-splash-core/ply-terminal.c
+@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@
+ #include <unistd.h>
+ #include <wchar.h>
+ 
++/* major()/minor() */
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_MKDEV
++#    include <sys/mkdev.h>
++#endif
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_SYSMACROS
++#    include <sys/sysmacros.h>
++#endif
++
+ #include <linux/kd.h>
+ #include <linux/major.h>
+ #include <linux/vt.h>
+-- 
+2.14.1
+
diff --git a/system/boot/plymouth/pspec.xml b/system/boot/plymouth/pspec.xml
index c13b32b5b0..4bb423fa92 100644
--- a/system/boot/plymouth/pspec.xml
+++ b/system/boot/plymouth/pspec.xml
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
         <IsA>library</IsA>
         <Summary>Graphical Boot Animation and Logger</Summary>
         <Description>plymouth provides an attractive graphical boot animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown. Text messages are instead redirected to a log file for viewing after boot.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="d0b70929bc47899e03019c3fcd681dd043d7fb8c" type="targz">http://source.pisilinux.org/1.0/plymouth-0.8.8.tar.gz</Archive>
-        <Archive sha1sum="f12d053f015708646d0871332b4b9465e7b11cef" type="tarxz" target="plymouth-0.8.8/themes">https://sourceforge.net/projects/pisilinux/files/source/plymouth-theme-pisilinux-0.4.tar.xz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="292abc0517eb90d6ce6be04cc26d29738e796458" type="targz">https://github.com/ev3dev/plymouth/archive/upstream/0.8.8.tar.gz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="f12d053f015708646d0871332b4b9465e7b11cef" type="tarxz" target="plymouth-upstream-0.8.8/themes">https://sourceforge.net/projects/pisilinux/files/source/plymouth-theme-pisilinux-0.4.tar.xz</Archive>
         <AdditionalFiles>
             <AdditionalFile permission="0755" target="generate-flist">pisilinux/generate-flist.py</AdditionalFile>
         </AdditionalFiles>
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
             <!--MaGeia patches-->
             <Patch level="1">mageia/plymouth-restore-suspend.patch</Patch>
             <Patch level="1">fedora/fix-crash.patch</Patch>
+            <Patch level="1">0.9.3-glibc-sysmacros.patch</Patch>
         </Patches>
     </Source>