diff --git a/mail/trojita/patches/patch-CMakeLists_txt b/mail/trojita/patches/patch-CMakeLists_txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+$OpenBSD: patch-CMakeLists_txt,v 1.1 2016/08/19 19:42:04 dcoppa Exp $
+--- CMakeLists.txt.orig	Fri Aug 19 11:42:02 2016
++++ CMakeLists.txt	Fri Aug 19 11:42:58 2016
+@@ -236,14 +236,6 @@ else()
+     set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG "-Werror ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG}")
+     # Also see CMP0043...
+ 
+-    # Optimizations are enabled unconditionally because they make a big difference in the speed of the
+-    # resulting binaries, and that it is better to allow an opt-out from them by adjusting CXXFLAGS through
+-    # an env var at cmake time if needed.
+-    # The reason for not manipulating just CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG is that unrecognized build types ("DebugFull")
+-    # should still benefit from these optimizations. Yup, it would be even better if CMake did a sane thing
+-    # and warned when users set an unrecognized and unused build type, but that just isn't the case.
+-    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-O2 ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
+-
+     # Build warnings are useful tools (and Trojita should be warning-free anyway), enable them on all
+     # configurations. They are warnings, not errors.
+     set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-Wall -Wsign-compare ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")