diff --git a/extra-cmake-modules-5.39.0-poppler_overlinking.patch b/extra-cmake-modules-5.39.0-poppler_overlinking.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4d895ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra-cmake-modules-5.39.0-poppler_overlinking.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -up extra-cmake-modules-5.39.0/find-modules/FindPoppler.cmake.poppler_overlinking extra-cmake-modules-5.39.0/find-modules/FindPoppler.cmake
+--- extra-cmake-modules-5.39.0/find-modules/FindPoppler.cmake.poppler_overlinking	2017-09-09 07:07:55.000000000 -0500
++++ extra-cmake-modules-5.39.0/find-modules/FindPoppler.cmake	2017-11-06 14:26:33.473536485 -0600
+@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ set(Poppler_known_components
+ )
+ foreach(_comp ${Poppler_known_components})
+     string(TOLOWER "${_comp}" _lc_comp)
+-    set(Poppler_${_comp}_component_deps "Core")
++    #set(Poppler_${_comp}_component_deps "Core")
+     set(Poppler_${_comp}_pkg_config "poppler-${_lc_comp}")
+     set(Poppler_${_comp}_lib "poppler-${_lc_comp}")
+     set(Poppler_${_comp}_header_subdir "poppler/${_lc_comp}")
diff --git a/extra-cmake-modules.spec b/extra-cmake-modules.spec
index cc1a7b8..38171bc 100644
--- a/extra-cmake-modules.spec
+++ b/extra-cmake-modules.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 Name:    extra-cmake-modules
 Summary: Additional modules for CMake build system
 Version: 5.39.0
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 
 License: BSD
 URL:     https://api.kde.org/ecm/
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ BuildRequires: python2-PyQt5-devel
 
 ## upstreamable patches
 Patch1: extra-cmake-modules-5.38.0-clang.patch
+# do not unconditionally link in base/core libpoppler library
+Patch2: extra-cmake-modules-5.39.0-poppler_overlinking.patch
 
 BuildRequires: kf5-rpm-macros
 %if 0%{?docs}
@@ -123,6 +125,9 @@ make test ARGS="--output-on-failure --timeout 300" -C %{_target_platform} ||:
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Nov 06 2017 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 5.39.0-2
+- FindPoppler.cmake: avoid overlinking base/core libpoppler
+
 * Sun Oct 08 2017 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 5.39.0-1
 - 5.39.0