diff --git a/package/brltty/0003-mk4build-also-pass-PKG_CONFIG_FOR_BUILD-to-the-nativ.patch b/package/brltty/0003-mk4build-also-pass-PKG_CONFIG_FOR_BUILD-to-the-nativ.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5839f78f3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/brltty/0003-mk4build-also-pass-PKG_CONFIG_FOR_BUILD-to-the-nativ.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+From 568e0d6070021a9b805ba1fe1543e4b43a073413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
+Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:23:35 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] mk4build: also pass PKG_CONFIG_FOR_BUILD to the native
+ configure
+
+In commit 0414ad2b4e8978a14343d920a5a1f11da892eaf3, mk4build was
+modified to pass a number of *_FOR_BUILD variables down to the
+configure script called for building the native tools.
+
+However, this configure script also uses the pkg-config tool, and the
+pkg-config to use for the native build and the cross build may be
+different, so let's also pass PKG_CONFIG_FOR_BUILD down to the
+sub-configure, as PKG_CONFIG, following the same logic as the other
+variables.
+
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
+Upstream: https://github.com/brltty/brltty/pull/248
+[Upstream patch is different, due to other upstream changes.]
+---
+ mk4build | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/mk4build b/mk4build
+index 3c64963b7..ad88ee69c 100755
+--- a/mk4build
++++ b/mk4build
+@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ then
+    CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS_FOR_BUILD} \
+    LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS_FOR_BUILD} \
+    LDLIBS=${LDLIBS_FOR_BUILD} \
++   PKG_CONFIG=${PKG_CONFIG_FOR_BUILD} \
+    "${sourceRoot}/configure" \
+       --disable-api \
+       --disable-gpm \
+-- 
+2.24.1
+
diff --git a/package/brltty/brltty.mk b/package/brltty/brltty.mk
index 11b8c0d35f..acc172fab0 100644
--- a/package/brltty/brltty.mk
+++ b/package/brltty/brltty.mk
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ BRLTTY_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE-LGPL README
 BRLTTY_DEPENDENCIES = $(TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES) host-autoconf host-pkgconf \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_AT_SPI2_CORE),at-spi2-core)
 
+BRLTTY_CONF_ENV = \
+	PKG_CONFIG_FOR_BUILD=$(HOST_DIR)/bin/pkgconf
+
 BRLTTY_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--disable-java-bindings \
 	--disable-lisp-bindings \