diff --git a/groups.d/241.native_packages_inet.group b/groups.d/241.native_packages_inet.group
index 8ccd9d0..5ab818b 100644
--- a/groups.d/241.native_packages_inet.group
+++ b/groups.d/241.native_packages_inet.group
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ gl_cv_ld_output_def=no"};
 : ${PKG_LIGHTTPD_CFLAGS_CONFIGURE_EXTRA:="-I${PREFIX_NATIVE}/include/lua5.4"};
 : ${PKG_LIGHTTPD_CONFIG_CACHE_EXTRA:="ac_cv_func_copy_file_range=no"};
 : ${PKG_LINKS_DEPENDS:="bzip2 libz libpng libX11 libressl tiff libjpeg_turbo xz zstd"};
-: ${PKG_LINKS_SHA256SUM:=2fd5499b13dee59457c132c167b8495c40deda75389489c6cccb683193f454b4};
-: ${PKG_LINKS_VERSION:=2.28};
+: ${PKG_LINKS_SHA256SUM:=22aa96c0b38e1a6f8f7ed9d7a4167a47fc37246097759ef6059ecf8f9ead7998};
+: ${PKG_LINKS_VERSION:=2.29};
 : ${PKG_LINKS_URL:=http://links.twibright.com/download/links-${PKG_LINKS_VERSION}.tar.bz2};
 : ${PKG_LINKS_CONFIGURE_ARGS:="--host=${DEFAULT_TARGET} --prefix= --disable-graphics --without-freetype"};
 : ${PKG_LYNX_DEPENDS:="gnutls ncursesw readline"};
diff --git a/patches/links-2.29_pre.local.patch b/patches/links-2.29_pre.local.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..45b652d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/links-2.29_pre.local.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ru links-2.29.orig/configure links-2.29/configure
+--- links-2.29.orig/configure	2023-03-18 17:13:07.000000000 +0100
++++ links-2.29/configure	2023-12-06 15:01:23.081475928 +0100
+@@ -7178,7 +7178,7 @@
+ 
+             echo $ac_n "checking OPENSSL_LIBS""... $ac_c" 1>&6
+ echo "configure:7183: checking OPENSSL_LIBS" >&5
+-            OPENSSL_LIBS=`$PKG_CONFIG --libs "openssl"`
++            OPENSSL_LIBS=`$PKG_CONFIG --libs-only-l "openssl"`
+             echo "$ac_t""$OPENSSL_LIBS" 1>&6
+         else
+             OPENSSL_CFLAGS=""