diff --git a/app-arch/gzip/patches/gzip-1.3.12-downstream.patch b/app-arch/gzip/patches/gzip-1.3.12-downstream.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9853c3894
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/gzip/patches/gzip-1.3.12-downstream.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+diff -Naur gzip-1.3.12-original/configure.ac gzip-1.3.12/configure.ac
+--- gzip-1.3.12-original/configure.ac	2009-04-06 23:31:48.000000000 -0400
++++ gzip-1.3.12/configure.ac	2009-04-06 23:37:45.000000000 -0400
+@@ -26,13 +26,14 @@
+ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
+ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])
+ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gnits])
++AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
+ 
+ AC_PROG_CC_STDC
+ AM_PROG_CC_C_O
+ AC_PROG_CPP
+ AC_CHECK_TOOL([NM], [nm], [nm])
+ AC_PROG_LN_S
+-AC_PROG_RANLIB
++LT_INIT
+ AC_PROG_SHELL
+ 
+ gl_EARLY