diff --git a/0001-drop-python-shebang-opts.patch b/0001-drop-python-shebang-opts.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aafc4b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-drop-python-shebang-opts.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From e38283748f9a05da409ffbdac3f623d100aa2818 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
+Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 14:11:33 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] drop python shebang opts
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Fedora's RPM build scripts add the executable path and the '-s' option
+to the shebang, which breaks the script¹.  We'll add the '-Ru' options
+via the %py2_shbang_opts while building.
+
+¹ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1335203
+---
+ linkchecker | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/linkchecker b/linkchecker
+index 9b5be4a0..b7c3949e 100755
+--- a/linkchecker
++++ b/linkchecker
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/usr/bin/python -Ru
++#!/usr/bin/python
+ # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+ # Copyright (C) 2000-2014 Bastian Kleineidam
+ #
+-- 
+2.20.0.rc2
+
diff --git a/linkchecker.spec b/linkchecker.spec
index 5f45a60..a6d6986 100644
--- a/linkchecker.spec
+++ b/linkchecker.spec
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Summary:             Check HTML documents for broken links
 License:             GPLv2
 URL:                 https://linkcheck.github.io/linkchecker/
 Source0:             https://github.com/cjmayo/linkchecker/archive/%{commit}.tar.gz
+Patch0000:           0001-drop-python-shebang-opts.patch
 BuildRequires:       gcc gettext python3-devel python3-setuptools
 BuildRequires:       python3dist(dnspython) python3dist(future) python3dist(pyxdg)
 BuildRequires:       python3dist(requests) >= 2.4