diff --git a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/aubio/aubio_0.4.6.bb b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/aubio/aubio_0.4.6.bb
index 8eebeefa..9fa4a847 100644
--- a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/aubio/aubio_0.4.6.bb
+++ b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/aubio/aubio_0.4.6.bb
@@ -13,22 +13,15 @@ DEPENDS += " \
     python3-numpy \
 "
 
-SRC_URI = "https://aubio.org/pub/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2"
+SRC_URI = " \
+    https://aubio.org/pub/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
+    file://0001-do-not-build-tests.patch \
+"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "78d326e5e44d19b0d21a5abf834bae20"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "bdc73be1f007218d3ea6d2a503b38a217815a0e2ccc4ed441f6e850ed5d47cfb"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = " \
-    --notests \
     --prefix=${prefix} \
     --sysconfdir=${sysconfdir} \
     --libdir=${libdir} \
 "
-
-do_compile()  {
-	${S}/waf build ${@get_waf_parallel_make(d)} --notests
-}
-
-do_install() {
-	${S}/waf install --destdir=${D} --notests
-}
-
diff --git a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/aubio/files/0001-do-not-build-tests.patch b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/aubio/files/0001-do-not-build-tests.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c7b624b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/aubio/files/0001-do-not-build-tests.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From e597c5c8636a269dbe5e664c706e66887479f161 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:59:52 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] do not build tests
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [embedded specific]
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+---
+ wscript | 1 -
+ 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
+index c40a864..0bc8238 100644
+--- a/wscript
++++ b/wscript
+@@ -474,7 +474,6 @@ def build(bld):
+         if bld.env['DEST_OS']=='emscripten' and not bld.options.testcmd:
+             bld.options.testcmd = 'node %s'
+         bld.recurse('examples')
+-        bld.recurse('tests')
+ 
+     # pkg-config template
+     bld( source = 'aubio.pc.in' )
+-- 
+2.14.3
+