diff --git a/recipes-misc/libdbi/files/0001-build-resolve-link-failure-in-sqlite3-module.patch b/recipes-misc/libdbi/files/0001-build-resolve-link-failure-in-sqlite3-module.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be897bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-misc/libdbi/files/0001-build-resolve-link-failure-in-sqlite3-module.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From 29ea4fd2c00a3c39ab4de08e3f333d5f4e219569 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+Message-Id: <29ea4fd2c00a3c39ab4de08e3f333d5f4e219569.1515054303.git.daniel@totalueberwachung.de>
+From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 12:52:32 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH 1/1] build: resolve link failure in sqlite3 module
+
+The sqlite3 backend fails to link because the wrong library name is
+used. (Ideally, libdbi-drivers should use PKG_CHECK_MODULES instead.)
+---
+ acinclude.m4 | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
+index 8e89af8..45db616 100644
+--- a/acinclude.m4
++++ b/acinclude.m4
+@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ if test "$ac_sqlite3" = "yes"; then
+ 		AC_SEARCH_LIBS_VAR([sqlite3_exec], sqlite3, , , , SQLITE3_LIBS)
+ 		SQLITE3_LDFLAGS=""
+ 	else
+-		SQLITE3_LIBS=-lsqlite
++		SQLITE3_LIBS=-lsqlite3
+ 		SQLITE3_LDFLAGS=-L$ac_sqlite3_libdir
+ 	fi
+ 
+-- 
+2.11.0
+
diff --git a/recipes-misc/libdbi/files/disable-tests.patch b/recipes-misc/libdbi/files/disable-tests.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3380e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-misc/libdbi/files/disable-tests.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- a/Makefile.am	2017-12-29 12:29:35.504078484 +0100
++++ b/Makefile.am	2017-12-29 12:29:44.428146890 +0100
+@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
+ 
+ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
+ 
+-SUBDIRS = drivers tests @docs_subdirs@
++SUBDIRS = drivers @docs_subdirs@
+ 
+ EXTRA_DIST = AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL README README.win32 README.osx README.encodings TODO libdbi-drivers.spec.in config.h.in Makefile.w32 autogen.sh fixlt.sh
+ 
+