diff --git a/dwarves-1.25-port-to-newer-cmake.patch b/dwarves-1.25-port-to-newer-cmake.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d58c5dcc78dc678ed061bd443bd253d767fc4ac6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dwarves-1.25-port-to-newer-cmake.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+--- dwarves-1.25/CMakeLists.txt.orig	2025-03-02 18:00:43.203226000 +0800
++++ dwarves-1.25/CMakeLists.txt	2025-03-02 18:00:55.513716500 +0800
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12)
++cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12...${CMAKE_VERSION})
+ project(pahole C)
+ cmake_policy(SET CMP0005 NEW)
+ 
diff --git a/dwarves.spec b/dwarves.spec
index 5f44ed268ef9f4bf30cb2fc54e4107eec223fb6b..dfb77db979d0a53fd631e06c61193b838b1d7746 100644
--- a/dwarves.spec
+++ b/dwarves.spec
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 Name: dwarves
 Version: 1.25
-Release: 4
-License: GPLv2
+Release: 5
+License: GPL-2.0-only
 Summary: Debugging Information Manipulation Tools
 URL: http://acmel.wordpress.com
 Source: http://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ BuildRequires: zlib-devel
 BuildRequires: elfutils-devel >= 0.170
 
 Patch0: backport-btf_encoder-Fix-dwarf-int-type-with-greater-than-16-.patch
+Patch1: dwarves-1.25-port-to-newer-cmake.patch
 
 %description
 dwarves is a set of tools that use the debugging information inserted in
@@ -81,6 +82,9 @@ tar -zxvf %{SOURCE1} --strip-components 1 -C %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/lib
 %{_libdir}/%{libname}_reorganize.so
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Mar 02 2025 Funda Wang <fundawang@yeah.net> - 1.25-5
+- try build with cmake 4.0
+
 * Fri Dec 20 2024 Funda Wang <fundawang@yeah.net> - 1.25-4
 - adopt to new cmake macro