diff --git a/patches/tk-8.7a1.local.patch b/patches/tk-8.7a1.local.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30bc5ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/tk-8.7a1.local.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+diff -ru a/unix/configure b/unix/configure
+--- a/unix/configure	2017-09-06 07:52:06.000000000 -0400
++++ b/unix/configure	2019-08-20 12:46:31.097935159 -0400
+@@ -8054,13 +8054,21 @@
+ 	{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $enable_xft" >&5
+ $as_echo "$enable_xft" >&6; }
+     else
++	if [ $cross_compiling = yes ]; then
++		XFT_CONFIG=${host}-xft-config
++		PKG_CONFIG=${host}-pkg-config
++	else
++		XFT_CONFIG=xft-config
++		PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config
++	fi
++
+ 	found_xft="yes"
+-			XFT_CFLAGS=`xft-config --cflags 2>/dev/null` || found_xft="no"
+-	XFT_LIBS=`xft-config --libs 2>/dev/null` || found_xft="no"
++	XFT_CFLAGS=`"${XFT_CONFIG}" --cflags 2>/dev/null` || found_xft="no"
++	XFT_LIBS=`"${XFT_CONFIG}" --libs 2>/dev/null` || found_xft="no"
+ 	if test "$found_xft" = "no" ; then
+ 	    found_xft=yes
+-	    XFT_CFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags xft 2>/dev/null` || found_xft="no"
+-	    XFT_LIBS=`pkg-config --libs xft 2>/dev/null` || found_xft="no"
++	    XFT_CFLAGS=`"${PKG_CONFIG}" --cflags xft 2>/dev/null` || found_xft="no"
++	    XFT_LIBS=`"${PKG_CONFIG}" --libs xft 2>/dev/null` || found_xft="no"
+ 	fi
+ 	{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $found_xft" >&5
+ $as_echo "$found_xft" >&6; }
diff --git a/vars/build.vars b/vars/build.vars
index 90b2c3d..5cda5cd 100644
--- a/vars/build.vars
+++ b/vars/build.vars
@@ -1431,6 +1431,9 @@ bison chicken cparser diffutils flex lunix m4 make mandoc nasm patch patchutils 
 : ${PKG_TK_URL:=http://kuiper.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_7/tk${PKG_TK_VERSION}-src.tar.gz};
 : ${PKG_TK_CONFIGURE:="tk${PKG_TK_VERSION}/unix/configure"};
 : ${PKG_TK_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:="tcl_cv_strtod_buggy=no --with-tcl=${PREFIX_NATIVE}/lib"};
+: ${PKG_TK_PATCHES_EXTRA:="${PWD}patches/tk-8.7a1.local.patch"};
+: ${PKG_TK_SUBDIR:=tk${PKG_TK_VERSION}};
+
 
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