diff --git a/cpprest.changes b/cpprest.changes
index 1a13f1c..4af9cdb 100644
--- a/cpprest.changes
+++ b/cpprest.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jun 17 11:09:02 UTC 2018 - astieger@suse.com
+
+- fix build with gcc8 (add cpprestsdk-2.10.2-fix-gcc8.patch)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Mar 22 13:48:16 UTC 2018 - astieger@suse.com
 
diff --git a/cpprest.spec b/cpprest.spec
index afd8a73..93bf546 100644
--- a/cpprest.spec
+++ b/cpprest.spec
@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ Summary:        C++ REST library
 # utf8_validation.hpp: MIT (ThirdPartyNotices.txt)
 License:        MIT AND BSD-3-Clause AND Zlib
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
-Url:            https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk
+URL:            https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk
 Source:         https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/cpprestsdk-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0:         cpprestsdk-2.10.2-fix-gcc8.patch
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 3.0
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  openssl-devel >= 1.0
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ Development files.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n cpprestsdk-%{version}
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 %cmake \
@@ -114,11 +116,14 @@ EOF
 %postun -n libcpprest%{major}_%{minor} -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %files -n libcpprest%{major}_%{minor}
-%doc CONTRIBUTORS.txt license.txt ThirdPartyNotices.txt
+%license license.txt ThirdPartyNotices.txt
+%license license.txt
+%doc CONTRIBUTORS.txt ThirdPartyNotices.txt
 %{_libdir}/libcpprest.so.%{major}.%{minor}
 
 %files devel
-%doc CONTRIBUTORS.txt license.txt
+%license license.txt ThirdPartyNotices.txt
+%doc CONTRIBUTORS.txt
 %{_includedir}/%{name}
 %{_includedir}/pplx
 %{_libdir}/libcpprest.so
diff --git a/cpprestsdk-2.10.2-fix-gcc8.patch b/cpprestsdk-2.10.2-fix-gcc8.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79afe1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpprestsdk-2.10.2-fix-gcc8.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From 212536f9d66400bef4400c55efd05dd01303c035 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Andreas Stieger <astieger@suse.com>
+Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 13:00:05 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix gcc8 error/warning -Werror=format-truncation=
+
+utilities::datetime::to_string(): datetime_str and buf were oversized
+for fitting into output without possible trunctation
+---
+ Release/src/utilities/asyncrt_utils.cpp | 7 ++++---
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/Release/src/utilities/asyncrt_utils.cpp b/Release/src/utilities/asyncrt_utils.cpp
+index 0e62bdee..be38907c 100644
+--- a/Release/src/utilities/asyncrt_utils.cpp
++++ b/Release/src/utilities/asyncrt_utils.cpp
+@@ -691,12 +691,13 @@ utility::string_t datetime::to_string(date_format format) const
+     {
+         // Append fractional second, which is a 7-digit value with no trailing zeros
+         // This way, '1200' becomes '00012'
+-        char buf[9] = { 0 };
++        const int max_frac_length = 8;
++        char buf[max_frac_length+1] = { 0 };
+         snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), ".%07ld", (long int)frac_sec);
+         // trim trailing zeros
+-        for (int i = 7; buf[i] == '0'; i--) buf[i] = '\0';
++        for (int i = max_frac_length-1; buf[i] == '0'; i--) buf[i] = '\0';
+         // format the datetime into a separate buffer
+-        char datetime_str[max_dt_length+1] = {0};
++        char datetime_str[max_dt_length-max_frac_length-1+1] = {0};
+         strftime(datetime_str, sizeof(datetime_str), "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", &datetime);
+         // now print this buffer into the output buffer
+         snprintf(output, sizeof(output), "%s%sZ", datetime_str, buf);
+-- 
+2.16.4
+