diff --git a/pcre-8.37-RC1-Fix-static-linking-issue-with-pkg-config.patch b/pcre-8.37-RC1-Fix-static-linking-issue-with-pkg-config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..adf46ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pcre-8.37-RC1-Fix-static-linking-issue-with-pkg-config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+From 2765d0933715e6b2c78a4e74fa8d5cad27273f29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>
+Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:34:33 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix static linking issue with pkg-config.
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@1552 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15
+Signed-off-by: Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com>
+
+diff --git a/libpcre.pc.in b/libpcre.pc.in
+index 1f26b32..0a35da8 100644
+--- a/libpcre.pc.in
++++ b/libpcre.pc.in
+@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ Name: libpcre
+ Description: PCRE - Perl compatible regular expressions C library with 8 bit character support
+ Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
+ Libs: -L${libdir} -lpcre
++Libs.private: @PTHREAD_CFLAGS@ @PTHREAD_LIBS@
+ Cflags: -I${includedir} @PCRE_STATIC_CFLAG@
+diff --git a/libpcre16.pc.in b/libpcre16.pc.in
+index f589b75..080c9dc 100644
+--- a/libpcre16.pc.in
++++ b/libpcre16.pc.in
+@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ Name: libpcre16
+ Description: PCRE - Perl compatible regular expressions C library with 16 bit character support
+ Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
+ Libs: -L${libdir} -lpcre16
++Libs.private: @PTHREAD_CFLAGS@ @PTHREAD_LIBS@
+ Cflags: -I${includedir} @PCRE_STATIC_CFLAG@
+diff --git a/libpcre32.pc.in b/libpcre32.pc.in
+index 6582105..a3ae0e1 100644
+--- a/libpcre32.pc.in
++++ b/libpcre32.pc.in
+@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ Name: libpcre32
+ Description: PCRE - Perl compatible regular expressions C library with 32 bit character support
+ Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
+ Libs: -L${libdir} -lpcre32
++Libs.private: @PTHREAD_CFLAGS@ @PTHREAD_LIBS@
+ Cflags: -I${includedir} @PCRE_STATIC_CFLAG@
+-- 
+2.1.0
+
diff --git a/pcre.spec b/pcre.spec
index c3ee32c..8d975b2 100644
--- a/pcre.spec
+++ b/pcre.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 %global rcversion RC1
 Name: pcre
 Version: 8.37
-Release: %{?rcversion:0.}1%{?rcversion:.%rcversion}%{?dist}
+Release: %{?rcversion:0.}2%{?rcversion:.%rcversion}%{?dist}
 %global myversion %{version}%{?rcversion:-%rcversion}
 Summary: Perl-compatible regular expression library
 Group: System Environment/Libraries
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ Source: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/%{name}/%{?rcversion:Te
 Patch0: pcre-8.21-multilib.patch
 # Refused by upstream, bug #675477
 Patch1: pcre-8.32-refused_spelling_terminated.patch
+# Fix static linking, bug #1214494, in upstream after 8.37-RC1
+Patch2: pcre-8.37-RC1-Fix-static-linking-issue-with-pkg-config.patch
 BuildRequires: readline-devel
 # New libtool to get rid of rpath
 BuildRequires: autoconf, automake, libtool
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ Utilities demonstrating PCRE capabilities like pcregrep or pcretest.
 # Get rid of rpath
 %patch0 -p1 -b .multilib
 %patch1 -p1 -b .terminated_typos
+%patch2 -p1 -b .static_linking
 # Because of rpath patch
 libtoolize --copy --force && autoreconf -vif
 # One contributor's name is non-UTF-8
@@ -141,6 +144,9 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags} check VERBOSE=yes
 %{_mandir}/man1/pcretest.*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Apr 23 2015 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 8.37-0.2.RC1
+- Fix static linking (bug #1214494)
+
 * Wed Apr 22 2015 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 8.37-0.1.RC1
 - 8.37 RC1 bump