diff --git a/srcpkgs/moreutils/patches/linker.patch b/srcpkgs/moreutils/patches/linker.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 16b313b2ef3..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/moreutils/patches/linker.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- is_utf8/Makefile
-+++ is_utf8/Makefile
-@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ CC = gcc
- CFLAGS = -O3 -Wextra -Wall -ansi -Wstrict-prototypes
- 
- $(NAME): $(OBJ)
--	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $(NAME) $(OBJ)
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(NAME) $(OBJ) $(LOADLIBES) $(LDLIBS)
- 
- IS_UTF8_LIB:
- 	$(CC) --shared -fPIC $(CFLAGS) $(LIB_SRC) -o $(LINKERNAME)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/moreutils/template b/srcpkgs/moreutils/template
index bb016cee151..60ff492c4e3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/moreutils/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/moreutils/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'moreutils'
 pkgname=moreutils
-version=0.63
+version=0.64
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-makefile
 make_build_args="DOCBOOK2XMAN=docbook2man"
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ maintainer="lemmi <lemmi@nerd2nerd.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-only, BSD-2-Clause"
 homepage="https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/"
 distfiles="https://git.joeyh.name/index.cgi/moreutils.git/snapshot/moreutils-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=4fc86d56a8a276a0cec71cdabda5ccca50c7a44a2a1ccd888476741d1ce6831d
+checksum=fed203542c5c2b55c3a41d21bca5bc627ec1f6d7313ed2f758c69798d65770ec
 
 post_install() {
 	# rename parallel to not conflict with gnu-parllel