diff --git a/lang/tcl85/distinfo b/lang/tcl85/distinfo
index c840a02c2..0c60e6f4c 100644
--- a/lang/tcl85/distinfo
+++ b/lang/tcl85/distinfo
@@ -16,3 +16,5 @@ SHA1 (patch-unix_tclUnixCompat.c) = 7ffa40a1a56345f5b86cd896e8e3b0d5748d8c5e
 SHA1 (patch-unix_tclUnixFCmd.c) = a56a12b8a0068e914d10336076347ca2b0ba9ac7
 SHA1 (patch-unix_tclUnixInit.c) = 61e3419cad9f3a00825218f9d92b1d8088f4bd30
 SHA1 (patch-unix_tclUnixPort.h) = fde3e497b9c94958aaac1b14a4f97916f17cf951
+SHA1 (patch-zz-minix-h) = 8fd57d7ce538ac9fb6b9fbfea34733c6bac5556f
+SHA1 (patch-zz-minix-j) = 413bb8e5ef2cf8adad287c879031b6bdc2704be6
diff --git a/lang/tcl85/patches/patch-zz-minix-h b/lang/tcl85/patches/patch-zz-minix-h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4a31f6b05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/tcl85/patches/patch-zz-minix-h
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- unix/tcl.m4.orig	Sun Apr 26 12:52:44 2015
++++ unix/tcl.m4	Sun Apr 26 12:53:23 2015
+@@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@
+ 	    UNSHARED_LIB_SUFFIX='${TCL_TRIM_DOTS}.a'
+ 	    TCL_LIB_VERSIONS_OK=nodots
+ 	    ;;
+-	NetBSD-*)
++	Minix-*|NetBSD-*)
+ 	    # NetBSD has ELF and can use 'cc -shared' to build shared libs
+ 	    SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fPIC"
+ 	    SHLIB_LD='${CC} -shared ${SHLIB_CFLAGS}'
+@@ -2029,7 +2029,7 @@
+ 	    BSD/OS*) ;;
+ 	    CYGWIN_*|MINGW32_*) ;;
+ 	    IRIX*) ;;
+-	    NetBSD-*|FreeBSD-*|OpenBSD-*) ;;
++	    Minix-*|NetBSD-*|FreeBSD-*|OpenBSD-*) ;;
+ 	    Darwin-*) ;;
+ 	    SCO_SV-3.2*) ;;
+ 	    *) SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fPIC" ;;
diff --git a/lang/tcl85/patches/patch-zz-minix-j b/lang/tcl85/patches/patch-zz-minix-j
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..24c9888ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/tcl85/patches/patch-zz-minix-j
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- unix/configure.orig	Tue Apr 28 18:49:50 2015
++++ unix/configure	Tue Apr 28 18:50:47 2015
+@@ -7722,7 +7722,7 @@
+ 	    UNSHARED_LIB_SUFFIX='${TCL_TRIM_DOTS}.a'
+ 	    TCL_LIB_VERSIONS_OK=nodots
+ 	    ;;
+-	NetBSD-*)
++	Minix-*|NetBSD-*)
+ 	    # NetBSD has ELF and can use 'cc -shared' to build shared libs
+ 	    SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fPIC"
+ 	    SHLIB_LD='${CC} -shared ${SHLIB_CFLAGS}'
+@@ -8953,7 +8953,7 @@
+ 	    BSD/OS*) ;;
+ 	    CYGWIN_*|MINGW32_*) ;;
+ 	    IRIX*) ;;
+-	    NetBSD-*|FreeBSD-*|OpenBSD-*|DragonFly-*|MirBSD-*) ;;
++	    Minix-*|NetBSD-*|FreeBSD-*|OpenBSD-*|DragonFly-*|MirBSD-*) ;;
+ 	    Darwin-*) ;;
+ 	    SCO_SV-3.2*) ;;
+ 	    *) SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fPIC" ;;