diff --git a/meta/meta-openembedded/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-numeric/0001-it-tries-to-define-this-function-differently-than-it.patch b/meta/meta-openembedded/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-numeric/0001-it-tries-to-define-this-function-differently-than-it.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81ed744
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/meta-openembedded/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-numeric/0001-it-tries-to-define-this-function-differently-than-it.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 322e781c67d7a78fc2cfc3d377f50b825fc64abb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 20:21:01 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] it tries to define this function differently than it is
+ defined in sys/time.h.
+
+Use the definition from system
+
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+---
+ Packages/RNG/Src/ranf.c | 3 ---
+ 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/Packages/RNG/Src/ranf.c b/Packages/RNG/Src/ranf.c
+index 5ca7dc5..e669fa8 100644
+--- a/Packages/RNG/Src/ranf.c
++++ b/Packages/RNG/Src/ranf.c
+@@ -149,9 +149,6 @@ void Mixranf(int *s,u32 s48[2])
+ #else
+ 	struct timeval tv;
+ 	struct timezone tz;
+-#if !defined(__sgi)
+-	int gettimeofday(struct timeval *, struct timezone *);
+-#endif
+ 
+ 	(void)gettimeofday(&tv,&tz);
+ 	s48[0] = (u32)tv.tv_sec;
+-- 
+2.13.0
+