diff --git a/community/polymake/PKGBUILD b/community/polymake/PKGBUILD
index 54ebf089e..f76be574d 100644
--- a/community/polymake/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/polymake/PKGBUILD
@@ -11,16 +11,23 @@ _pkgver=3.3
 _patchver=4
 #pkgver=$_pkgver.r$_patchver
 pkgver=$_pkgver
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="Open source software for research in polyhedral geometry"
 arch=(x86_64)
 url="https://polymake.org/"
 license=(GPL)
-depends=(mpfr normaliz singular ppl perl-xml-writer perl-xml-libxml perl-xml-libxslt perl-term-readline-gnu perl-term-readkey perl-json)
-makedepends=(ninja cddlib lrs ant boost bliss libnsl jdk8-openjdk)
+depends=(mpfr normaliz singular ppl lrs perl-xml-writer perl-xml-libxml perl-xml-libxslt perl-term-readline-gnu perl-term-readkey perl-json)
+makedepends=(ninja cddlib ant boost bliss libnsl jdk8-openjdk)
 optdepends=('java-runtime: java module')
-source=("https://polymake.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/download/polymake-${_pkgver}-minimal.tar.bz2")
-sha256sums=('f7867137f99d5e8b86035ba05b59a63c5b73a95b21b88059fd2439216c128792')
+source=("https://polymake.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/download/polymake-${_pkgver}-minimal.tar.bz2"
+        polymake-fix-lib-loading.patch)
+sha256sums=('f7867137f99d5e8b86035ba05b59a63c5b73a95b21b88059fd2439216c128792'
+            '491cf7ea37e58e9289b81feb5604473b960e3688969a8d7854378fd6f9deb93a')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd polymake-$_pkgver
+  patch -p1 -i ../polymake-fix-lib-loading.patch # Fix loading shared library from external programs
+}
 
 build() {
   cd polymake-$_pkgver
diff --git a/community/polymake/polymake-fix-lib-loading.patch b/community/polymake/polymake-fix-lib-loading.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..03b914aec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/polymake/polymake-fix-lib-loading.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/lib/callable/src/perl/Main.cc b/lib/callable/src/perl/Main.cc
+index 6267025..2c96dc1 100644
+--- a/lib/callable/src/perl/Main.cc
++++ b/lib/callable/src/perl/Main.cc
+@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ void deduce_install_dirs(std::string lib_path, std::string& install_top, std::st
+ {
+    const char stem_name[]="libpolymake";
+    constexpr size_t stem_size=sizeof(stem_name)-1;
+-   auto basename_start=lib_path.find(stem_name, stem_size);
++   auto basename_start=lib_path.find(stem_name);
+    if (basename_start == std::string::npos)
+       throw std::runtime_error("polymake::Main - weird callable library path " + lib_path);
+