diff --git a/media-libs/babl/babl-0.1.120.recipe b/media-libs/babl/babl-0.1.120.recipe
index 82266a224..7fe2185f9 100644
--- a/media-libs/babl/babl-0.1.120.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/babl/babl-0.1.120.recipe
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ as well as the framework to add new color models, spaces and data types."
 HOMEPAGE="https://gegl.org/babl/"
 COPYRIGHT="Øyvind Kolås"
 LICENSE="GNU LGPL v3"
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="3"
 SOURCE_URI="https://download.gimp.org/pub/babl/0.1/babl-$portVersion.tar.xz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="f476ad15201fb4ed0c90c174c524b1e4271ccd69a377242d6a69fcdf87ceacc2"
+PATCHES="babl-$portVersion.patchset"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="ALL !x86_gcc2"
 SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
@@ -68,9 +69,9 @@ BUILD()
 	meson \
 		--buildtype=release \
 		--prefix=$prefix \
+		--datadir=$dataDir \
 		--libdir=$libDir \
 		--libexecdir=$binDir \
-		--datadir=$dataDir \
 		--includedir=$includeDir \
 		--sysconfdir=$settingsDir \
 		-Dwith-docs=true \
diff --git a/media-libs/babl/patches/babl-0.1.120.patchset b/media-libs/babl/patches/babl-0.1.120.patchset
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..44a9be652
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-libs/babl/patches/babl-0.1.120.patchset
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From 8c5557c0d030f272e86a2daefefb349cf67f6b31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Luc Schrijvers <begasus@gmail.com>
+Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 11:35:25 +0100
+Subject: Fix datadir (share/data) path for pkgconfig
+
+
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index 576762c..6698fe5 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ pkgconfig.generate(
+   version: meson.project_version(),
+   subdirs: lib_name,
+   variables: [
+-    'datadir=${prefix}/share',
++    'datadir=${prefix}/data',
+     'pluginsdir=${libdir}/@0@'.format(lib_name),
+     'girdir=${datadir}/gir-1.0',
+     'typelibdir=${libdir}/girepository-1.0',
+-- 
+2.52.0
+