diff --git a/SOURCES/0001-compiler-rt-Fix-FLOAT16-feature-detection.patch b/SOURCES/0001-compiler-rt-Fix-FLOAT16-feature-detection.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0459cbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/0001-compiler-rt-Fix-FLOAT16-feature-detection.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From ce15f52198639e9195b8833ed60dc1a49c293956 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Tom Stellard <tstellar@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:49:55 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] compiler-rt: Fix FLOAT16 feature detection
+
+CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_TARGET_TYPE defaults to EXECUTABLE, which causes
+any feature detection code snippet without a main function to fail,
+so we need to make sure it gets explicitly set to STATIC_LIBRARY.
+---
+ compiler-rt/lib/builtins/CMakeLists.txt | 3 ++-
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/compiler-rt/lib/builtins/CMakeLists.txt b/compiler-rt/lib/builtins/CMakeLists.txt
+index 2fc70522895f..e83a1ecea50b 100644
+--- a/compiler-rt/lib/builtins/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/compiler-rt/lib/builtins/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ if (CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR STREQUAL CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR)
+       "at least 3.20.0 now to avoid issues in the future!")
+   endif()
+ 
+-  set(CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_TARGET_TYPE STATIC_LIBRARY)
+   project(CompilerRTBuiltins C ASM)
+   set(COMPILER_RT_STANDALONE_BUILD TRUE)
+   set(COMPILER_RT_BUILTINS_STANDALONE_BUILD TRUE)
+@@ -56,6 +55,8 @@ if (COMPILER_RT_STANDALONE_BUILD)
+     "Turns on or off -fPIC for the builtin library source"
+     ON)
+ endif()
++  
++set(CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_TARGET_TYPE STATIC_LIBRARY)
+ 
+ include(builtin-config-ix)
+ include(CMakePushCheckState)
+-- 
+2.40.1
+
diff --git a/SPECS/compiler-rt.spec b/SPECS/compiler-rt.spec
index d1c9626..bff997e 100644
--- a/SPECS/compiler-rt.spec
+++ b/SPECS/compiler-rt.spec
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 Name:		compiler-rt
 Version:	%{compiler_rt_version}
-Release:	1%{?dist}
+Release:	2%{?dist}
 Summary:	LLVM "compiler-rt" runtime libraries
 
 License:	Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR NCSA OR MIT
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ Source2:	release-keys.asc
 Source3:	https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-%{compiler_rt_version}%{?rc_ver:-rc%{rc_ver}}/%{cmake_srcdir}.tar.xz
 Source4:	https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-%{compiler_rt_version}%{?rc_ver:-rc%{rc_ver}}/%{cmake_srcdir}.tar.xz.sig
 
+Patch0:		0001-compiler-rt-Fix-FLOAT16-feature-detection.patch
+
 BuildRequires:	clang
 BuildRequires:	cmake
 BuildRequires:	ninja-build
@@ -124,6 +126,9 @@ popd
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Aug 29 2023 Tom Stellard <tstellar@redhat.com> - 16.0.6-2
+- Fix FLOAT16 detection
+
 * Wed Jul 05 2023 Nikita Popov <npopov@redhat.com> - 16.0.6-1
 - Update to LLVM 16.0.6