diff --git a/app-text/discount/discount-2.2.6.ebuild b/app-text/discount/discount-2.2.6.ebuild
index 9e5705492517e..9cb5d5ea9f157 100644
--- a/app-text/discount/discount-2.2.6.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/discount/discount-2.2.6.ebuild
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
 IUSE="minimal test"
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/gethopt-undefined.patch )
+
 src_prepare() {
 	default
 
diff --git a/app-text/discount/files/gethopt-undefined.patch b/app-text/discount/files/gethopt-undefined.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5b081877a7a2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/discount/files/gethopt-undefined.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -aur discount-2.2.6/Makefile.in discount-2.2.6-new/Makefile.in
+--- discount-2.2.6/Makefile.in	2019-04-16 03:28:20.000000000 +1200
++++ discount-2.2.6-new/Makefile.in	2020-06-21 07:39:32.256757588 +1200
+@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
+ 
+ pandoc_headers.o: tools/pandoc_headers.c config.h
+ 	$(BUILD) -c -o pandoc_headers.o tools/pandoc_headers.c
+-pandoc_headers: pandoc_headers.o
++pandoc_headers: pandoc_headers.o $(MKDLIB)
+ 	$(LINK) -o pandoc_headers pandoc_headers.o $(COMMON) -lmarkdown 
+ 
+ branch.o: tools/branch.c config.h