diff --git a/community/xulrunner/0001-Bug-1233963-Work-around-recent-GNU-gold-behavior-wit.patch b/community/xulrunner/0001-Bug-1233963-Work-around-recent-GNU-gold-behavior-wit.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1e7fa1cd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/xulrunner/0001-Bug-1233963-Work-around-recent-GNU-gold-behavior-wit.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+From 4d0fe8f40364c170226f1ef3bc98975630463e87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mike Hommey <mh+mozilla@glandium.org>
+Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:31:04 +0900
+Subject: [PATCH] Bug 1233963 - Work around recent GNU gold behavior with
+ segments starting before the first section they contain
+
+---
+ build/unix/elfhack/elf.cpp | 7 +++++--
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/build/unix/elfhack/elf.cpp b/build/unix/elfhack/elf.cpp
+index 666b535..743afde 100644
+--- a/build/unix/elfhack/elf.cpp
++++ b/build/unix/elfhack/elf.cpp
+@@ -253,26 +253,29 @@ Elf::Elf(std::ifstream &file)
+         }
+         if (phdr.p_type == PT_PHDR)
+             segment->addSection(phdr_section);
+         for (int j = 1; j < ehdr->e_shnum; j++)
+             if (phdr.contains(sections[j]))
+                 segment->addSection(sections[j]);
+         // Make sure that our view of segments corresponds to the original
+         // ELF file.
+-        assert(segment->getFileSize() == phdr.p_filesz);
++        // GNU gold likes to start some segments before the first section
++        // they contain. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19392
++        unsigned int gold_adjustment = segment->getAddr() - phdr.p_vaddr;
++        assert(segment->getFileSize() == phdr.p_filesz - gold_adjustment);
+         // gold makes TLS segments end on an aligned virtual address, even
+         // when the underlying section ends before that, while bfd ld
+         // doesn't. It's fine if we don't keep that alignment.
+         unsigned int memsize = segment->getMemSize();
+         if (phdr.p_type == PT_TLS && memsize != phdr.p_memsz) {
+             unsigned int align = segment->getAlign();
+             memsize = (memsize + align - 1) & ~(align - 1);
+         }
+-        assert(memsize == phdr.p_memsz);
++        assert(memsize == phdr.p_memsz - gold_adjustment);
+         segments.push_back(segment);
+     }
+ 
+     new (&eh_entry) ElfLocation(ehdr->e_entry, this);
+ }
+ 
+ Elf::~Elf()
+ {
+-- 
+2.7.0
+
diff --git a/community/xulrunner/PKGBUILD b/community/xulrunner/PKGBUILD
index 7a245453a..7118956fb 100644
--- a/community/xulrunner/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/xulrunner/PKGBUILD
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ highmem=1
 
 pkgname=xulrunner
 pkgver=41.0.2
-pkgrel=3
+pkgrel=4
 pkgdesc="Mozilla Runtime Environment"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 license=('MPL' 'GPL' 'LGPL')
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ url="http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Xul_Runner"
 source=(https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/$pkgver/source/xulrunner-$pkgver.source.tar.xz
         mozconfig
         freetype261.patch
+        0001-Bug-1233963-Work-around-recent-GNU-gold-behavior-wit.patch
         mozilla-pkgconfig.patch
         shared-libs.patch)
 options=('!emptydirs' 'staticlibs')
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ replaces=('xulrunner-oss')
 sha256sums=('f7abb2e2989779305ab1f80d30caf9fc55d96c7e66d1394e2cc9639442e2b864'
             '08e7c8e40ca3ab68f91b18b84a4fbbba00767c88d84c0cfcdd52fe5e36083207'
             '3aea9a83bf304da5525f34a911712cf42f8ded1c8b6becf0a2cf8a4b4f7facd6'
+            '13a27a385fab88938ac7417f1e7ca7225ec6b88840bafe67e0f5642e5446554a'
             '1aa9ebe67542a2b8c28905d070829ada5b29438c6a7961f2b0cdd6b92d8b9f5c'
             '59d9fc421bc10a5515b73e159f44a72365bf7b7e8b3fc8a8c46043ef40bd3a40')
 
@@ -40,6 +42,9 @@ prepare() {
   # https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194520
   patch -Np1 -i ../freetype261.patch
 
+  # https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233963
+  patch -Np1 -i ../0001-Bug-1233963-Work-around-recent-GNU-gold-behavior-wit.patch
+
   # fix libdir/sdkdir - fedora
   patch -Np1 -i ../mozilla-pkgconfig.patch
   patch -Np1 -i ../shared-libs.patch