diff --git a/0002-tdb-Fix-compatibility-of-wscript-with-older-python.patch b/0002-tdb-Fix-compatibility-of-wscript-with-older-python.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9aaa0b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0002-tdb-Fix-compatibility-of-wscript-with-older-python.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+From 08be3793f00e26a87ce6a38a996cb6d9486e15bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Lukas Slebodnik <lslebodn@redhat.com>
+Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 02:39:11 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] tdb: Fix compatibility of wscript with older python
+
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "tdb-1.3.17/third_party/waf/waflib/Scripting.py", line 158, in waf_entry_point
+    run_commands()
+  File "tdb-1.3.17/third_party/waf/waflib/Scripting.py", line 251, in run_commands
+    ctx = run_command(cmd_name)
+  File "tdb-1.3.17/third_party/waf/waflib/Scripting.py", line 235, in run_command
+    ctx.execute()
+  File "tdb-1.3.17/third_party/waf/waflib/Context.py", line 204, in execute
+    self.recurse([os.path.dirname(g_module.root_path)])
+  File "tdb-1.3.17/third_party/waf/waflib/Context.py", line 286, in recurse
+    user_function(self)
+  File "tdb-1.3.17/wscript", line 225, in testonly
+    cmd = "BINDIR={} {}".format(blddir, sh_test)
+ValueError: zero length field name in format
+---
+ wscript | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
+index 6a6adabc4c1260d12cb984cb0aa5a806d9171f50..2c31f696808fcb105b15661c5d0ab65aadf7efe7 100644
+--- a/wscript
++++ b/wscript
+@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ def testonly(ctx):
+         sh_tests = ["test/test_tdbbackup.sh test/jenkins-be-hash.tdb"]
+ 
+         for sh_test in sh_tests:
+-            cmd = "BINDIR={} {}".format(blddir, sh_test)
++            cmd = "BINDIR=%s %s" % (blddir, sh_test)
+             print("shell test: " + cmd)
+             ret = samba_utils.RUN_COMMAND(cmd)
+             if ret != 0:
+-- 
+2.20.1
+
diff --git a/libtdb.spec b/libtdb.spec
index 8d102e1..f8985d6 100644
--- a/libtdb.spec
+++ b/libtdb.spec
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Source: http://samba.org/ftp/tdb/tdb-%{version}.tar.gz
 
 # Patches
 Patch0001: 0001-Fix-detection-of-HAVE_LARGEFILE-with-python2.patch
+Patch0002: 0002-tdb-Fix-compatibility-of-wscript-with-older-python.patch
 
 BuildRequires: gcc
 BuildRequires: libxslt