diff --git a/gzexe.patch b/gzexe.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e48fa2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gzexe.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+From 21cd963565a43dabd59516bd4cca5c76a614f255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jakub Martisko <jamartis@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:29:30 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix: the value of the skip variable in the gzexe
+
+---
+ gzexe.in          |  4 ++--
+ tests/Makefile.am |  1 +
+ tests/gzexe       | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
+ 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+ create mode 100755 tests/gzexe
+
+diff --git a/gzexe.in b/gzexe.in
+index 6c61183..cffa84e 100644
+--- a/gzexe.in
++++ b/gzexe.in
+@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ for i do
+   if test $decomp -eq 0; then
+     (cat <<'EOF' &&
+ #!/bin/sh
+-skip=44
++skip=49
+ 
+ tab='	'
+ nl='
+@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ EOF
+ 
+   else
+     # decompression
+-    skip=44
++    skip=49
+     skip_line=`sed -e 1d -e 2q "$file"`
+     case $skip_line in
+     skip=[0-9] | skip=[0-9][0-9] | skip=[0-9][0-9][0-9])
+diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
+index ebdce5b..4dfbccf 100644
+--- a/tests/Makefile.am
++++ b/tests/Makefile.am
+@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
+ # along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ 
+ TESTS =					\
++	gzexe				\
+   gzip-env				\
+   helin-segv				\
+   help-version				\
+diff --git a/tests/gzexe b/tests/gzexe
+new file mode 100755
+index 0000000..45f71c7
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/tests/gzexe
+@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
++#!/bin/sh
++#Try running simple shell script compressed by gzexe
++
++. "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ..
++
++cat <<EOF > foo || framework_failure_
++#!/bin/sh
++echo "Hello World!"
++EOF
++
++echo "Hello World!" > exp || framework_failure_
++
++fail=0
++gzexe foo || fail=1
++/bin/sh foo > out 2> err || fail=1
++
++compare exp out || fail=1
++test -s err && fail=1
++
++Exit $fail
+-- 
+2.21.0
+
diff --git a/gzip.spec b/gzip.spec
index b65ffb4..99d5d7c 100644
--- a/gzip.spec
+++ b/gzip.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: The GNU data compression program
 Name: gzip
 Version: 1.9
-Release: 8%{?dist}
+Release: 9%{?dist}
 # info pages are under GFDL license
 License: GPLv3+ and GFDL
 Source0: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Source100: colorzgrep.csh
 Source101: colorzgrep.sh
 
 Patch1: gnulib.patch
+Patch2: gzexe.patch
 
 # Fixed in upstream code.
 # http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gzip.bugs/378
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ URL: http://www.gzip.org/
 # zless) of another tools, because gzip "extends" the tools by its
 # wrappers much more than it "requires" them.
 Requires: coreutils 
-BuildRequires: texinfo, gcc
+BuildRequires: texinfo, gcc, autoconf, automake, less
 Conflicts: filesystem < 3
 Provides: /bin/gunzip
 Provides: /bin/gzip
@@ -39,7 +40,9 @@ very commonly used data compression program.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch1 -p1 -b .gnulib
+%patch2 -p1 -b .gzexe
 cp %{SOURCE1} .
+autoreconf
 
 %build
 export DEFS="NO_ASM"
@@ -49,6 +52,7 @@ export CPP="%{__cpp}"
 export CXX="%{__cxx}"
 %configure
 make
+make check
 #make gzip.info
 
 %install
@@ -78,6 +82,12 @@ install -p -m 644 %{SOURCE101} %{buildroot}%{profiledir}
 %{profiledir}/*
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 26 2019 Jakub Martisko <jamartis@redhat.com> - 1.9-9
+- Fix wrong skip size in gzexe
+- Add new test dealing with the ^^ (needs autoreconf)
+- Enable make check (needs less)
+  Related: 1690825
+
 * Fri Feb 01 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.9-8
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild