diff --git a/procps/.md5sum b/procps/.md5sum
index 99ce6d30..a97fd77a 100644
--- a/procps/.md5sum
+++ b/procps/.md5sum
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+d47bdc30ef97d52659929acfed49c3cf  procps-3.2.8-linux-ver-init.patch
 46e344e5ebc243d185a6abd708430ac8  procps-3.2.8.patch
 9532714b6846013ca9898984ba4cd7e0  procps-3.2.8.tar.gz
 9875c218e1b14bee8f9f5800403a8a24  sysctl.conf
diff --git a/procps/Pkgfile b/procps/Pkgfile
index 72ec8949..6a70bda2 100644
--- a/procps/Pkgfile
+++ b/procps/Pkgfile
@@ -5,14 +5,17 @@
 
 name=procps
 version=3.2.8
-release=2
-source=(http://procps.sourceforge.net/$name-$version.tar.gz \
-        $name-$version.patch sysctl.conf)
+release=3
+source=(http://procps.sourceforge.net/$name-$version.tar.gz
+        $name-$version.patch
+        $name-$version-linux-ver-init.patch
+        sysctl.conf)
 
 build() {
     cd $name-$version
     patch -p1 -i $SRC/$name-$version.patch
+    patch -p0 -i $SRC/$name-$version-linux-ver-init.patch
     make
     make DESTDIR=$PKG install
     install -D -m644 $SRC/sysctl.conf $PKG/etc/sysctl.conf
-} 
+}
diff --git a/procps/procps-3.2.8-linux-ver-init.patch b/procps/procps-3.2.8-linux-ver-init.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..33555543
--- /dev/null
+++ b/procps/procps-3.2.8-linux-ver-init.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603759
+# https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303120
+
+Index: proc/version.c
+===================================================================
+RCS file: /cvsroot/procps/procps/proc/version.c,v
+retrieving revision 1.7
+diff -u -p -r1.7 version.c
+--- proc/version.c	9 Feb 2003 07:27:16 -0000	1.7
++++ proc/version.c	14 Nov 2010 00:22:44 -0000
+@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ void display_version(void) {
+ 
+ int linux_version_code;
+ 
+-static void init_Linux_version(void) __attribute__((constructor));
++static void init_Linux_version(void) __attribute__((constructor(100)));
+ static void init_Linux_version(void) {
+     static struct utsname uts;
+     int x = 0, y = 0, z = 0;	/* cleared in case sscanf() < 3 */