diff --git a/external/liborcus/UnpackedTarball_liborcus.mk b/external/liborcus/UnpackedTarball_liborcus.mk
index 30d3f0d78d1c..47d05e82c612 100644
--- a/external/liborcus/UnpackedTarball_liborcus.mk
+++ b/external/liborcus/UnpackedTarball_liborcus.mk
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ $(eval $(call gb_UnpackedTarball_add_patches,liborcus,\
 	external/liborcus/forcepoint-95.patch.1 \
 	external/liborcus/include.patch.0 \
 	external/liborcus/overrun.patch.0 \
+	external/liborcus/liborcus-no-benchmark.patch.1 \
 ))
 
 ifeq ($(OS),WNT)
diff --git a/external/liborcus/liborcus-no-benchmark.patch.1 b/external/liborcus/liborcus-no-benchmark.patch.1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a19cea836601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/liborcus/liborcus-no-benchmark.patch.1
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+-*- Mode: Diff -*-
+
+Don't build the benchmark directory.
+
+We won't run those anyway, and on some platforms building executables
+here and there for random externals can be problematic. While at it,
+skip the doc_example subdirectory too.
+
+--- liborcus/Makefile.in
++++ liborcus/Makefile.in
+@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@
+ top_build_prefix = @top_build_prefix@
+ top_builddir = @top_builddir@
+ top_srcdir = @top_srcdir@
+-SUBDIRS = src include benchmark	doc_example
++SUBDIRS = src include
+ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
+ pcfiles = liborcus-@ORCUS_API_VERSION@.pc $(am__append_1)
+ pkgconfig_DATA = $(pcfiles)