diff --git a/srcpkgs/glade3/patches/meson-0.61.patch b/srcpkgs/glade3/patches/meson-0.61.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..72f9c0e509
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/glade3/patches/meson-0.61.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+From 61304b2e8bac8ded76643cb7c3e781f73881dd2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
+Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:18:09 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH 1/2] meson: i18n.merge_file() does not take a positional
+ argument
+
+---
+ data/meson.build | 2 --
+ 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
+index 9f244566..bfbc514c 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ desktop_conf = configuration_data()
+ desktop_conf.set('VERSION', glade_version)
+ 
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  'desktop',
+   type: 'desktop',
+   input: configure_file(
+     input: 'org.gnome.Glade.desktop.in.in',
+@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ i18n.merge_file(
+ appdata = glade_name + '.appdata.xml'
+ 
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  'appdata',
+   input: 'org.gnome.Glade.appdata.xml.in',
+   output: '@BASENAME@',
+   po_dir: po_dir,
+-- 
+GitLab
+
+
+From 04ba6f969f716fbfe3c7feb7e4bab8678cc1e9eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
+Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:19:03 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Remove duplicate entry for 'da' from help/LINGUAS
+
+---
+ help/LINGUAS | 1 -
+ 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/help/LINGUAS b/help/LINGUAS
+index fc3cd4c3..d67e42c8 100644
+--- a/help/LINGUAS
++++ b/help/LINGUAS
+@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
+ # please keep this list sorted alphabetically
+ #
+-da
+ bg
+ ca
+ cs
+-- 
+GitLab
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/glade3/template b/srcpkgs/glade3/template
index 763632c1e7..a0235c1fae 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/glade3/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/glade3/template
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version=3.38.2
 revision=1
 wrksrc="glade-${version}"
 build_style=meson
-build_helper="gir"
+build_helper="gir qemu"
 configure_args="-Dgtk_doc=true -Dman=true $(vopt_bool gir introspection)"
 hostmakedepends="glib-devel intltool itstool pkg-config
  gjs-devel yelp-tools gettext-devel gtk-doc"