diff --git a/irqbalance-0.55-as-needed.patch b/irqbalance-0.55-as-needed.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..14e5f40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/irqbalance-0.55-as-needed.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Index: Makefile
+===================================================================
+--- Makefile.orig	2009-06-17 17:43:42.000000000 +0200
++++ Makefile	2009-06-17 17:48:59.000000000 +0200
+@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ all: irqbalance
+ LIBS=bitmap.o irqbalance.o cputree.o  procinterrupts.o irqlist.o placement.o activate.o network.o powermode.o numa.o classify.o
+ 
+ irqbalance: .depend $(LIBS)
+-	gcc  $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o irqbalance
++	gcc  $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o irqbalance $(LDFLAGS)
+ 
+ clean:
+ 	rm -f irqbalance *~ *.o .depend
diff --git a/irqbalance.changes b/irqbalance.changes
index f77663e..ca6057b 100644
--- a/irqbalance.changes
+++ b/irqbalance.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jun 17 17:52:43 CEST 2009 - crrodriguez@suse.de
+
+- fix build when as-needed is a default linker option  
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Nov  5 22:14:13 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
 
diff --git a/irqbalance.spec b/irqbalance.spec
index 756ac0f..0629b68 100644
--- a/irqbalance.spec
+++ b/irqbalance.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package irqbalance (Version 0.55)
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2009 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Group:          System/Daemons
 AutoReqProv:    on
 PreReq:         %insserv_prereq
 Version:        0.55
-Release:        120
+Release:        121
 Summary:        Balance IRQs on SMP Machines
 Source:         %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source1:        irqbalance.pod
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 # xorg-x11-util-devel is for gccmakedep
 BuildRequires:  glib2-devel perl xorg-x11-util-devel
 Patch0:         irqbalance-fix-Makefile
+Patch1:         irqbalance-0.55-as-needed.patch
 
 %description
 irqbalance dynamically switches the CPUs for IRQs to prevent cpu0 from
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ Authors:
 %prep
 %setup
 %patch0 -p1
+%patch1
 
 %build
 make CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fPIE -pie"
@@ -92,6 +94,8 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 /var/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.irqbalance
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jun 17 2009 crrodriguez@suse.de
+- fix build when as-needed is a default linker option
 * Wed Nov 05 2008 bwalle@suse.de
 - Don't start the irqbalance on IA64 SGI SN2 systems (bnc#441505).
 * Fri Aug 15 2008 bwalle@suse.de
@@ -105,7 +109,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 - remove special handling of timer interrupt and dual core
   systems from init script because the new irq balancer does
   that automatically
-* Sun Apr 15 2007 bwalle@suse.de
+* Mon Apr 16 2007 bwalle@suse.de
 - wrote manpage for irqbalance
 * Wed Apr 11 2007 bwalle@suse.de
 - updated to irqbalance.org 0.55
@@ -139,7 +143,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 - don't build as root
 * Fri Sep 02 2005 ro@suse.de
 - rcscript: ignore on machines with < 2 CPUs
-* Mon Jun 20 2005 ro@suse.de
+* Tue Jun 21 2005 ro@suse.de
 - build with fPIE/pie
 * Mon Feb 16 2004 sf@suse.de
 - update to 0.09