diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libuser/libuser/gtkdoc.patch b/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libuser/libuser/gtkdoc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4d11b94e02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libuser/libuser/gtkdoc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Update the GTK_DOC_CHECK invocation to specify where the
+documentation will be built (as the default is ./docs).
+
+This is needed so that gtkdocize as run by autopoint knows where the
+documentation will be built.
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://pagure.io/libuser/pull-request/70]
+Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 0bd4a67..51508b7 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ if test "$GCC" = yes ; then
+      AC_MSG_RESULT([$enable_Werror])
+ fi
+ 
+-GTK_DOC_CHECK
++GTK_DOC_CHECK([1.14],[--flavour no-tmpl --docdir docs/reference])
+ 
+ AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile po/Makefile.in docs/Makefile docs/reference/Makefile
+ libuser.pc])
diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libuser/libuser_0.64.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libuser/libuser_0.64.bb
index d86a577b10..973159c792 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libuser/libuser_0.64.bb
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libuser/libuser_0.64.bb
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ SECTION = "base"
 SRC_URI = "https://releases.pagure.org/libuser/libuser-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://0001-docs-Disable-building.patch \
            file://0002-remove-unused-execinfo.h.patch \
+           file://gtkdoc.patch \
            "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ea6094c72cb9e60a42fb53509dc98d124a340f1c9222783b503208adc16a0a8f"