diff --git a/patches/pkgbuild/p11-kit.sh b/patches/pkgbuild/p11-kit.sh
index e3db4c1..952f74e 100755
--- a/patches/pkgbuild/p11-kit.sh
+++ b/patches/pkgbuild/p11-kit.sh
@@ -53,3 +53,28 @@ io.open("PKGBUILD", "w", encoding="utf-8").write("\n".join(lines))
 ZZPY
 grep -q -- "-D man=false" PKGBUILD || { echo "p11-kit: man not disabled" >&2; exit 1; }
 echo "p11-kit: man pages disabled (DocBook stylesheets absent, not xsltproc)"
+
+# --- and the gtk-doc split ----------------------------------------------------
+#
+#   mv: cannot stat '<pkgdir>/usr/share/gtk-doc': No such file or directory
+#
+# TWELFTH time. -D gtk_doc=false above stopped the documentation being built and
+# left package() splitting it out:
+#
+#   _pick doc "$pkgdir"/usr/share/gtk-doc
+#
+# _pick is Arch's helper for moving a path into a sub-package, and it is as fatal
+# on a missing path as a bare mv.
+python3 - <<'ZZPY'
+import io, re
+lines = io.open("PKGBUILD", encoding="utf-8").read().split("\n")
+hit = [i for i, l in enumerate(lines) if "gtk-doc" in l and "_pick" in l]
+assert len(hit) == 1, "p11-kit: expected one gtk-doc _pick, got %d" % len(hit)
+i = hit[0]
+ind = re.match(r"^[ \t]*", lines[i]).group(0)
+lines[i] = ind + ": # gtk_doc is false above, so usr/share/gtk-doc is never created."
+io.open("PKGBUILD", "w", encoding="utf-8").write("\n".join(lines))
+ZZPY
+grep -qE "_pick doc .*gtk-doc" PKGBUILD && {
+    echo "p11-kit: the gtk-doc pick survived" >&2; exit 1; }
+echo "p11-kit: gtk-doc split removed (nothing builds it now)"
diff --git a/patches/pkgbuild/tpm2-tss.sh b/patches/pkgbuild/tpm2-tss.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d7aff06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/pkgbuild/tpm2-tss.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# tpm2-tss: no unit tests, because their framework is not here.
+#
+#   configure: error: Unit test enabled, but cmocka missing or version
+#
+# This is the second obstacle in this package, and the first one hid it: before
+# autoconf-archive existed, configure died on
+#
+#   configure.ac:139: error: undefined or overquoted macro: AC_MSG_WARN
+#
+# which named a macro that exists. An AX_* macro was missing, m4 quoting came
+# apart, and autoconf blamed the next thing it recognised. With the archive
+# installed, configure gets far enough to ask for cmocka.
+#
+# cmocka is a C unit-test framework, wanted only to build tests that this
+# bootstrap does not run -- makepkg is invoked with --nocheck for the whole first
+# pass. --disable-unit is tpm2-tss's own switch; the PKGBUILD passes --enable-unit
+# in its options array.
+set -euo pipefail
+python3 - <<'ZZPY'
+import io, re
+lines = io.open("PKGBUILD", encoding="utf-8").read().split("\n")
+hit = [i for i, l in enumerate(lines) if re.match(r"^[ \t]*--enable-unit[ \t]*$", l)]
+assert len(hit) == 1, "tpm2-tss: expected one --enable-unit, got %d" % len(hit)
+lines[hit[0]] = lines[hit[0]].replace("--enable-unit", "--disable-unit")
+io.open("PKGBUILD", "w", encoding="utf-8").write("\n".join(lines))
+ZZPY
+grep -q -- "--disable-unit" PKGBUILD || { echo "tpm2-tss: unit tests not disabled" >&2; exit 1; }
+grep -qE "^[[:space:]]*--enable-unit[[:space:]]*$" PKGBUILD && {
+    echo "tpm2-tss: --enable-unit survived" >&2; exit 1; }
+echo "tpm2-tss: unit tests disabled (no cmocka)"