diff --git a/srcpkgs/enchant/patches/hunspell14_buildfix.diff b/srcpkgs/enchant/patches/hunspell14_buildfix.diff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0ecdb24b30c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/enchant/patches/hunspell14_buildfix.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -ru enchant-1.6.0-orig/src/myspell/myspell_checker.cpp enchant-1.6.0/src/myspell/myspell_checker.cpp
+--- enchant-1.6.0-orig/src/myspell/myspell_checker.cpp	2016-04-18 12:25:00.094614256 +0100
++++ enchant-1.6.0/src/myspell/myspell_checker.cpp	2016-04-18 12:26:09.108569576 +0100
+@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@
+ 		g_iconv_close(m_translate_out);
+ }
+ 
++#ifndef MAXWORDLEN
++#   define MAXWORDLEN 100
++#endif
++
+ bool
+ MySpellChecker::checkWord(const char *utf8Word, size_t len)
+ {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/enchant/template b/srcpkgs/enchant/template
index 358906c442b..6ae23729115 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/enchant/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/enchant/template
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ license="LGPL-2.1"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 distfiles="http://www.abisource.com/downloads/enchant/$version/enchant-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=2fac9e7be7e9424b2c5570d8affe568db39f7572c10ed48d4e13cddf03f7097f
+patch_args="-Np1"
 
 pre_configure() {
 	autoreconf -fi