diff --git a/.drone.jsonnet b/.drone.jsonnet
index 61d256f3a..20da7542b 100644
--- a/.drone.jsonnet
+++ b/.drone.jsonnet
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ local Pipeline(branch, platform, event, arch='amd64', server='10.6-enterprise')
                'mkdir -p ' + builddir,
                'cd ' + builddir,
                'wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-columnstore-engine/fdb_build/tests/scripts/fdb_build.sh',
-               'wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-columnstore-engine/fdb_build/tests/scripts/mariadb_foundationdb-7.1.63_gcc.patch',
                'bash fdb_build.sh',
                'mkdir -p  /drone/src/' + result,
                'ls -al fdb_build/packages',
diff --git a/tests/scripts/fdb_build.sh b/tests/scripts/fdb_build.sh
index 5808c5129..a3014d226 100644
--- a/tests/scripts/fdb_build.sh
+++ b/tests/scripts/fdb_build.sh
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ FDB_VERSION=7.3.43
 GCC_VERSION='11'
 CLANG_VERSION='16'
 BUILD_COMMAND='make -j2'
-SCRIPT_LOCATION=$(dirname "$0")
-SCRIPT_PATH=$(realpath $SCRIPT_LOCATION)
 
 . /etc/os-release
 
@@ -195,12 +193,11 @@ wget https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/archive/refs/tags/${FDB_VERSION}.zip
 unzip -q ${FDB_VERSION}.zip
 
 
+# assume patch file is already in the root /
 message "Patching sources"
+wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-columnstore-engine/fdb_build/tests/scripts/mariadb_foundationdb-${FDB_VERSION}_gcc.patch
 cd foundationdb-${FDB_VERSION}
-ls ${SCRIPT_PATH}
-ls
-pwd
-patch -p1 -i ${SCRIPT_PATH}/mariadb_foundationdb-${FDB_VERSION}_gcc.patch
+patch -p1 -i ../mariadb_foundationdb-${FDB_VERSION}_gcc.patch
 cd -
 
 
diff --git a/utils/libmarias3/libmarias3 b/utils/libmarias3/libmarias3
index d7028f429..f74150b05 160000
--- a/utils/libmarias3/libmarias3
+++ b/utils/libmarias3/libmarias3
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit d7028f429bb247c622eb9948d9b8d5356f03cb79
+Subproject commit f74150b05693440d35f93c43e2d2411cc66fee19