diff --git a/serf-1.3.8-norpath.patch b/serf-1.3.8-norpath.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e8a64c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/serf-1.3.8-norpath.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154690
+
+--- serf-1.3.8/SConstruct.norpath
++++ serf-1.3.8/SConstruct
+@@ -218,9 +218,6 @@ if sys.platform != 'win32':
+ else:
+   LIBNAMESTATIC = 'serf-${MAJOR}'
+ 
+-env.Append(RPATH=libdir,
+-           PDB='${TARGET.filebase}.pdb')
+-
+ if sys.platform == 'darwin':
+ #  linkflags.append('-Wl,-install_name,@executable_path/%s.dylib' % (LIBNAME,))
+   env.Append(LINKFLAGS='-Wl,-install_name,%s/%s.dylib' % (thisdir, LIBNAME,))
+@@ -366,12 +363,6 @@ if gssapi and CALLOUT_OKAY:
+ if sys.platform == 'win32':
+   env.Append(CPPDEFINES=['SERF_HAVE_SSPI'])
+ 
+-# On some systems, the -R values that APR describes never make it into actual
+-# RPATH flags. We'll manually map all directories in LIBPATH into new
+-# flags to set RPATH values.
+-for d in env['LIBPATH']:
+-  env.Append(RPATH=':'+d)
+-
+ # Set up the construction of serf-*.pc
+ pkgconfig = env.Textfile('serf-%d.pc' % (MAJOR,),
+                          env.File('build/serf.pc.in'),
+@@ -439,7 +430,6 @@ env.AlwaysBuild(env.Alias('check', TEST_
+                           ENV={'PATH' : os.environ['PATH']}))
+ 
+ # Find the (dynamic) library in this directory
+-tenv.Replace(RPATH=thisdir)
+ tenv.Prepend(LIBS=[LIBNAMESTATIC, ],
+              LIBPATH=[thisdir, ])
+ 
diff --git a/serf-1.3.8-testfix.patch b/serf-1.3.8-testfix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6cee71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/serf-1.3.8-testfix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+
+Fix build.
+
+--- serf-1.3.8/test/test_buckets.c.testfix
++++ serf-1.3.8/test/test_buckets.c
+@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ static apr_status_t deflate_compress(con
+        uncompressed data, + 12 bytes. This info comes from zlib.h.
+        Note: This isn't sufficient when using Z_NO_FLUSH and extremely compressed
+        data. Use a buffer bigger than what we need. */
+-//    buf_size = orig_len + (orig_len / 1000) + 12;
++    /* buf_size = orig_len + (orig_len / 1000) + 12; */
+     buf_size = 100000;
+ 
+     write_buf = apr_palloc(pool, buf_size);