diff --git a/build/pkgs/pyzmq/patches/0001-setup.py-Remove-setting-of-rpath.patch b/build/pkgs/pyzmq/patches/0001-setup.py-Remove-setting-of-rpath.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9f0483d8442
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/pkgs/pyzmq/patches/0001-setup.py-Remove-setting-of-rpath.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From 29427869ce0a9f13e29c7f89873a1880c8be55a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Matthias Koeppe <mkoeppe@math.ucdavis.edu>
+Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 21:12:48 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH 1/2] setup.py: Remove setting of rpath
+
+---
+ setup.py | 2 --
+ 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index d5c77a23..8a2a4943 100755
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -300,8 +300,6 @@ def settings_from_prefix(prefix=None):
+                     settings['include_dirs'] += [pjoin(env, 'include')]
+                     settings['library_dirs'] += [pjoin(env, 'lib')]
+ 
+-        for path in settings['library_dirs']:
+-            _add_rpath(settings, os.path.abspath(path))
+     info(settings)
+ 
+     return settings
+-- 
+2.42.0
+
diff --git a/build/pkgs/pyzmq/patches/0002-setup.py-Patch-out-broken-version-detection.patch b/build/pkgs/pyzmq/patches/0002-setup.py-Patch-out-broken-version-detection.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..95e62898233
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/pkgs/pyzmq/patches/0002-setup.py-Patch-out-broken-version-detection.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From b5bdcad66a28394f6e5be4ad7fd00835deec73f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Matthias Koeppe <mkoeppe@math.ucdavis.edu>
+Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 21:35:29 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH 2/2] setup.py: Patch out broken version detection
+
+---
+ setup.py | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 8a2a4943..19d31654 100755
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ class Configure(build_ext):
+ 
+     def check_zmq_version(self):
+         """check the zmq version"""
++        return
+         cfg = self.config
+         # build test program
+         zmq_prefix = cfg['zmq_prefix']
+-- 
+2.42.0
+