diff --git a/vtk-Mesa10.3-build-failures.patch b/vtk-Mesa10.3-build-failures.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..42c9439
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vtk-Mesa10.3-build-failures.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Index: VTK-6.1.0/Rendering/OpenGL/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx
+===================================================================
+--- VTK-6.1.0.orig/Rendering/OpenGL/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx
++++ VTK-6.1.0/Rendering/OpenGL/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx
+@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
+ 
+ // define GLX_GLXEXT_LEGACY to prevent glx.h to include glxext.h provided by
+ // the system
+-//#define GLX_GLXEXT_LEGACY
++#define GLX_GLXEXT_LEGACY
+ #include "GL/glx.h"
+ 
+ #include "vtkgl.h"
diff --git a/vtk.changes b/vtk.changes
index 5cc45d8..414e894 100644
--- a/vtk.changes
+++ b/vtk.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 11 01:52:56 UTC 2014 - badshah400@gmail.com
+
+- Add vtk-Mesa10.3-build-failures.patch to workaround build
+  failures when compiling against Mesa >= 10.3; patch taken from
+  upstream git and rebased; applied only for openSUSE >= 13.2.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 24 20:44:24 UTC 2014 - badshah400@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/vtk.spec b/vtk.spec
index a83500b..bae4bf1 100644
--- a/vtk.spec
+++ b/vtk.spec
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Patch0:         vtk-system.patch
 Patch1:         vtk-fix-file-contains-date-time.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM vtk-install-missing-modules.patch badshah400@gmail.com -- Install some cmake modules missed in upstream packaging (will be required if in future we can get paraview to use system installed vtk)
 Patch2:         vtk-install-missing-modules.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM vtk-Mesa10.3-build-failures.patch badshah400@gmail.com --  Actually define GLX_GLXEXT_LEGACY to prevent the system glext.h include; fixes buld failures with Mesa >= 10.3; fix taken from upstream git and rebased
+Patch3:         vtk-Mesa10.3-build-failures.patch
 BuildRequires:  Mesa-libGL-devel
 BuildRequires:  R-base-devel
 BuildRequires:  boost-devel
@@ -224,6 +226,9 @@ This package provides a few testing programs for VTK.
 %patch0 -p1
 %patch1 -p1
 %patch2 -p1
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1310
+%patch3 -p1
+%endif
 
 # Replace relative path ../../../VTKData with %%{_datadir}/%%{name}data-%%{version}
 # otherwise it will break on symlinks.