diff --git a/pcre2-symbol-clash.patch b/pcre2-symbol-clash.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6af1e14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pcre2-symbol-clash.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+Date: 2021-04-14 11:42:14.750408048
+
+If libpcre2-posix.so makes it into a process image somehow before
+libc.so (which is easy: gcc something.c -lpcre2-posix), pcre2's
+"regcomp" symbol wins a race over libc's "regcomp" symbol. There are
+likely more situations as well, because libc's "regcomp" is _also_
+marked as weak. Anyway, because the functions two are not
+behavior-compatible, problems arise.
+
+To stay ABI compatible, we could make a new library without regcomp etc.,
+and edit the .pc file to point to the new library, but that would not
+capture the case someone uses plain gcc -l without pkg-config.
+
+Since regcomp is "#defined" to pcre2_regcomp, any programs that were
+source-compiled are fine. Removing the reg* symbols from the library
+hence only breaks the case of dlsym(libpcre2-posix, "regcomp"),
+which, I will argue, is an absolute niche use of the PCRE libraries
+and something we are willing to break.
+
+---
+ src/pcre2posix.c |    2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+Index: pcre2-10.36/src/pcre2posix.c
+===================================================================
+--- pcre2-10.36.orig/src/pcre2posix.c
++++ pcre2-10.36/src/pcre2posix.c
+@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ This also ensures that the POSIX names a
+ include pcre2posix.h. It is vital to #undef the macro definitions from
+ pcre2posix.h! */
+ 
++#if 0
+ #undef regerror
+ PCRE2POSIX_EXP_DECL size_t regerror(int, const regex_t *, char *, size_t);
+ PCRE2POSIX_EXP_DEFN size_t PCRE2_CALL_CONVENTION
+@@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ regexec(const regex_t *preg, const char
+ {
+ return pcre2_regexec(preg, string, nmatch, pmatch, eflags);
+ }
++#endif
+ 
+ 
+ 
diff --git a/pcre2.changes b/pcre2.changes
index e6e095b..1b8bf58 100644
--- a/pcre2.changes
+++ b/pcre2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Apr 14 09:57:53 UTC 2021 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Remove regcomp, regexec etc. from libpcre2-posix.
+  (Add pcre2-symbol-clash.patch)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Dec  5 12:41:55 UTC 2020 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
 
diff --git a/pcre2.spec b/pcre2.spec
index d27a8a9..83bfba9 100644
--- a/pcre2.spec
+++ b/pcre2.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package pcre2
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Source3:        %{name}.keyring
 Source4:        baselibs.conf
 #PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE tchvatal@suse.cz upstream thinks it is good idea to use rpath, taken from RH
 Patch1:         pcre2-10.10-multilib.patch
+Patch2:         pcre2-symbol-clash.patch
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
@@ -164,8 +165,7 @@ PCRE2 is a re-working of the original PCRE library to provide an entirely new
 API.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
-%patch1 -p1
+%autosetup -p1
 
 %build
 %define _lto_cflags %{nil}