diff --git a/fonts/harfbuzz/distinfo b/fonts/harfbuzz/distinfo
index 180e6b899..30710e91e 100644
--- a/fonts/harfbuzz/distinfo
+++ b/fonts/harfbuzz/distinfo
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ SHA1 (harfbuzz-0.9.26.tar.bz2) = 0963768b8ee1f575c5a20828eefb101be6eaae6f
 RMD160 (harfbuzz-0.9.26.tar.bz2) = 3f7000915f877bdd99619a50f3fb4665512b7275
 Size (harfbuzz-0.9.26.tar.bz2) = 1060264 bytes
 SHA1 (patch-src_hb-open-type-private.hh) = 876f1afdf2c7babb4cd3c2b9c9e4635167ad1021
+SHA1 (patch-za) = 2733009db5676995cfeb64ab105ca035b9d08a3e
diff --git a/fonts/harfbuzz/patches/patch-za b/fonts/harfbuzz/patches/patch-za
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e0099691
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fonts/harfbuzz/patches/patch-za
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- src/hb-font-private.hh.orig	Wed May  7 21:28:04 2014
++++ src/hb-font-private.hh	Wed May  7 21:28:34 2014
+@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
+ #include "hb-face-private.hh"
+ #include "hb-shaper-private.hh"
+ 
++#ifdef __minix
++#undef read
++#endif
+ 
+ 
+ /*