diff --git a/quassel-disable-ssl-check.patch b/quassel-disable-ssl-check.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6dd1f2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quassel-disable-ssl-check.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Index: quassel-0.12.2/CMakeLists.txt
+===================================================================
+--- quassel-0.12.2.orig/CMakeLists.txt
++++ quassel-0.12.2/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -479,20 +479,7 @@ if (NOT ZLIB_FOUND)
+     endif()
+ endif()
+ 
+-# Check for SSL support in Qt
+-# As there's no easy way to get Qt's configuration in particular for Qt5, let's just compile
+-# a small test program checking the defines. This works for both Qt4 and Qt5.
+-cmake_push_check_state(RESET)
+-set(CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES ${QT_INCLUDES} ${Qt5Core_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+-check_cxx_source_compiles("
+-    #include \"qglobal.h\"
+-    #if defined QT_NO_OPENSSL || defined QT_NO_SSL
+-    #  error \"No SSL support\"
+-    #endif
+-    int main() {}"
+-    HAVE_SSL)
+-cmake_pop_check_state()
+-
++SET(HAVE_SSL TRUE)
+ if (HAVE_SSL)
+     add_definitions(-DHAVE_SSL)
+ endif()
diff --git a/quassel.changes b/quassel.changes
index 4068712..b9239b3 100644
--- a/quassel.changes
+++ b/quassel.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jul  3 06:25:25 UTC 2015 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Add patch to fix/disable SSL check in cmakelists.txt:
+  * quassel-disable-ssl-check.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May  6 13:00:35 UTC 2015 - tittiatcoke@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/quassel.spec b/quassel.spec
index 21656d7..9bf0c54 100644
--- a/quassel.spec
+++ b/quassel.spec
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Source2:        sysconfig.%{name}core
 Source3:        logrotate.%{name}core
 Source4:        %{name}.SuSEfirewall2
 Source5:        quassel-rpmlintrc
+# PATCH-FIX-SUSE: Workaround -fPIC requirement in configure check by
+#                 disabling it as we have it always on our distro anyway
+Patch0:         quassel-disable-ssl-check.patch
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 2.8.10
 BuildRequires:  extra-cmake-modules
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
@@ -154,6 +157,7 @@ This contains common parts shared by %{name} and %{name}-client
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 FAKE_BUILDDATE=$(LC_ALL=C date -r %{_sourcedir}/%{name}.changes '+%%b %%e %%Y')