diff --git a/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7-qmake_LFLAGS.patch b/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7-qmake_LFLAGS.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f1a5a12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7-qmake_LFLAGS.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -up qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7/qmake/Makefile.unix.qmake_LFLAGS qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7/qmake/Makefile.unix
+--- qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7/qmake/Makefile.unix.qmake_LFLAGS	2015-05-07 09:14:42.000000000 -0500
++++ qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7/qmake/Makefile.unix	2018-02-15 08:25:13.168838577 -0600
+@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ BUILD_PATH = @BUILD_PATH@
+ QTOBJS = @QMAKE_QTOBJS@
+ QTSRCS = @QMAKE_QTSRCS@
+ QMAKESPEC = @QMAKESPEC@
+-LFLAGS = @QMAKE_LFLAGS@
++LFLAGS = @QMAKE_LFLAGS@ $(QMAKE_LFLAGS_RELEASE)
+ 
+ #qmake code
+ OBJS=project.o property.o main.o makefile.o unixmake2.o unixmake.o  \
diff --git a/qt.spec b/qt.spec
index 2ff532e..151c6fe 100644
--- a/qt.spec
+++ b/qt.spec
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Summary: Qt toolkit
 Name:    qt
 Epoch:   1
 Version: 4.8.7
-Release: 35%{?dist}
+Release: 36%{?dist}
 
 # See LGPL_EXCEPTIONS.txt, LICENSE.GPL3, respectively, for exception details
 License: (LGPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions) and ASL 2.0 and BSD and FTL and MIT
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ Patch55: qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.2-cups.patch
 # backport https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/205874/
 Patch56: qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7-mariadb.patch
 
+# use QMAKE_LFLAGS_RELEASE when building qmake
+Patch57: qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7-qmake_LFLAGS.patch
+
 # Fails to create debug build of Qt projects on mingw (rhbz#653674)
 Patch64: qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.5-QTBUG-14467.patch
 
@@ -593,6 +596,7 @@ and invoke methods on those objects.
 %patch54 -p1 -b .mysql_config
 %patch55 -p1 -b .cups-1
 %patch56 -p1 -b .mariadb
+%patch57 -p1 -b .qmake_LFLAGS
 %patch64 -p1 -b .QTBUG-14467
 %patch65 -p1 -b .qtreeview-kpackagekit-crash
 %patch67 -p1 -b .s390
@@ -1400,6 +1404,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Feb 15 2018 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 1:4.8.7-36
+- qt: Fedora build flags only partially applied (#1543887)
+
 * Fri Feb 09 2018 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org> - 1:4.8.7-35
 - Escape macros in %%changelog