diff --git a/meson-suse-ify-macros.patch b/meson-suse-ify-macros.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5d9bf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meson-suse-ify-macros.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Index: meson-0.37.1/data/macros.meson
+===================================================================
+--- meson-0.37.1.orig/data/macros.meson
++++ meson-0.37.1/data/macros.meson
+@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
+ %__meson %{_bindir}/meson
++%_vpath_srcdir .
++%_vpath_builddir build
+ 
+ %meson \
+-    export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS:-%__global_cflags}"       \
+-    export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS:-%__global_cxxflags}" \
+-    export FFLAGS="${FFLAGS:-%__global_fflags}"       \
+-    export FCFLAGS="${FCFLAGS:-%__global_fcflags}"    \
+-    export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS:-%__global_ldflags}"    \
++    export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS:-%optflags}"       \
++    export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS:-%optflags}" \
++    export FFLAGS="${FFLAGS:-%optflags}"       \
++    export FCFLAGS="${FCFLAGS:-%optflags}"    \
+     %{__meson}                              \\\
+         --buildtype=plain                   \\\
+         --prefix=%{_prefix}                 \\\
diff --git a/meson.changes b/meson.changes
index 28b52bc..9cd30a7 100644
--- a/meson.changes
+++ b/meson.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan 10 16:14:32 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Add meson-suse-ify-macros.patch: Make the meson macros also work
+  on openSUSE. We do not (yet?) have separate macros for CFLAGS,
+  CXXFLAGS, FFLAGS and LDFLAGS, but only carry optflags. This is no
+  issue, since openSUSE so far only added flags that work accross
+  compilers/languages. This might change in the future, making the
+  patch obsolete.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jan  1 12:51:36 UTC 2017 - sor.alexei@meowr.ru
 
diff --git a/meson.spec b/meson.spec
index b4886f1..2989db4 100644
--- a/meson.spec
+++ b/meson.spec
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ Url:            http://mesonbuild.com/
 Source:         https://github.com/%{_name}/%{name}/releases/download/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        https://github.com/%{_name}/%{name}/releases/download/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz.asc
 Source2:        %{name}.keyring
+# PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE meson-suse-ify-macros.patch dimstar@opensuse.org -- Make the macros non-RetHat specific. So far we do not have sep. {C,CXX,F}FLAGS
+Patch0:         meson-suse-ify-macros.patch
 BuildRequires:  bison
 BuildRequires:  boost-devel
 BuildRequires:  flex
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ Domain Specific Language.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 # Lack of gtest, gmock, gnustep.
 rm -rf "test cases/frameworks/2 gtest" \