diff --git a/SOURCES/gzexe.patch b/SOURCES/gzexe.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02f75e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/gzexe.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+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/SPECS/gzip.spec b/SPECS/gzip.spec
index 18d8c59..9a1c99e 100644
--- a/SPECS/gzip.spec
+++ b/SPECS/gzip.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: The GNU data compression program
 Name: gzip
 Version: 1.9
-Release: 4%{?dist}
+Release: 4%{?dist}.0.1
 # info pages are under GFDL license
 License: GPLv3+ and GFDL
 Group: Applications/File
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Source100: colorzgrep.csh
 Source101: colorzgrep.sh
 
 Patch1: gnulib.patch
+Patch9999: gzexe.patch
+
 # Fixed in upstream code.
 # http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gzip.bugs/378
 URL: http://www.gzip.org/
@@ -40,6 +42,8 @@ very commonly used data compression program.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch1 -p1 -b .gnulib
+%patch9999 -p1 -b .gzexe
+
 cp %{SOURCE1} .
 
 %build
@@ -93,6 +97,9 @@ fi
 %{profiledir}/*
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Aug 10 2019 Pablo Greco <pgreco@centoproject.org> - 1.9-4.0.1
+- Fix gzexe
+
  * Tue Aug 07 2018 Jakub Martisko <jamartis@redhat.com> - 1.9-4
  - Fix FTBFS bug (gnulib problems)
  - more details: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2018-03/msg00000.html