diff --git a/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg/0001-modify-msg-file-handling-to-reference-them-relatively.patch b/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg/0001-modify-msg-file-handling-to-reference-them-relatively.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cef1be8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg/0001-modify-msg-file-handling-to-reference-them-relatively.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff -Naur a/cmake/genmsg-extras.cmake.em b/cmake/genmsg-extras.cmake.em
+--- a/cmake/genmsg-extras.cmake.em	2013-01-19 20:01:11.000000000 +0100
++++ b/cmake/genmsg-extras.cmake.em	2013-03-13 16:39:51.000000000 +0100
+@@ -172,8 +172,7 @@
+     ${CATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX}/share/${PROJECT_NAME}/cmake/${PROJECT_NAME}-msg-paths.cmake
+     @@ONLY)
+   # generate and install config of message include dirs for project
+-  _prepend_path(${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/${PROJECT_NAME} "${${PROJECT_NAME}_MSG_INCLUDE_DIRS_INSTALLSPACE}" INCLUDE_DIRS_W_PATH)
+-  set(PKG_MSG_INCLUDE_DIRS "${INCLUDE_DIRS_W_PATH}")
++  set(PKG_MSG_INCLUDE_DIRS "${${PROJECT_NAME}_MSG_INCLUDE_DIRS_INSTALLSPACE}")
+   configure_file(
+     ${genmsg_CMAKE_DIR}/pkg-msg-paths.cmake.in
+     ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/catkin_generated/installspace/${PROJECT_NAME}-msg-paths.cmake
+diff -Naur a/cmake/pkg-msg-paths.cmake.in b/cmake/pkg-msg-paths.cmake.in
+--- a/cmake/pkg-msg-paths.cmake.in	2013-01-19 20:01:11.000000000 +0100
++++ b/cmake/pkg-msg-paths.cmake.in	2013-03-13 16:37:32.000000000 +0100
+@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
+ set(@PROJECT_NAME@_MSG_INCLUDE_DIRS @PKG_MSG_INCLUDE_DIRS@)
++if(NOT IS_ABSOLUTE ${@PROJECT_NAME@_MSG_INCLUDE_DIRS})
++  set(@PROJECT_NAME@_MSG_INCLUDE_DIRS ${@PROJECT_NAME@_DIR}/../${@PROJECT_NAME@_MSG_INCLUDE_DIRS})
++endif()
+ set(@PROJECT_NAME@_MSG_DEPENDENCIES @ARG_DEPENDENCIES@)
diff --git a/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg_0.4.17.bb b/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg_0.4.17.bb
index 5a885b3..0f7c6cd 100644
--- a/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg_0.4.17.bb
+++ b/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg_0.4.17.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=9;endline=9;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
 
-SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros/${BPN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz;downloadfilename=${BP}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros/${BPN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz;downloadfilename=${BP}.tar.gz \
+           file://0001-modify-msg-file-handling-to-reference-them-relatively.patch \
+           "
+
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "de385f1796bf025915ed7b20e1e1acc4"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "e510caa7692a4b0a0948688b9d2d8f6ff2f329980d7f78787276afec030806b7"