diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop/0001-Use-pkg-config-to-find-tcl.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop/0001-Use-pkg-config-to-find-tcl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..24249b9360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop/0001-Use-pkg-config-to-find-tcl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+From 5dad843ca0860d6d7be443ddc850566584b8004a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:09:02 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Use pkg-config to find tcl
+
+Instead of using hardcoded path for the tcl include folder
+use pkg-config to find the proper values.
+
+That way it won't use the system folders for cross-compilation.
+
+Also, extend the number of tcl versions to check (at the time of
+this commit oe-core provides version 8.6)
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+---
+ configure.ac | 15 +++++++--------
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index e95956e..3d0dc82 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -71,18 +71,17 @@ if test xno != x$with_glib; then
+ fi
+ 
+ if test xno != x$with_tcl; then
+-  for version in 8.4 8.3 8.2 8.1 8.0 ; do
+-    CPPFLAGS="$save_cppflags -I/usr/include/tcl$version"
+-    AC_CHECK_LIB(tcl$version,Tcl_Main,[
+-    AC_CHECK_HEADER(tcl.h,[
++  save_cppflags="$CPPFLAGS"
++  for version in "" 8.4 8.3 8.2 8.1 8.0 ; do
++    PKG_CHECK_EXISTS(tcl$version,,continue)
++    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(TCL, tcl$version, [
+       LIBOOP_LIBS="liboop-tcl.la $LIBOOP_LIBS"
+       AC_DEFINE(HAVE_TCL)
+-      TCL_INCLUDES="-I/usr/include/tcl$version"
+-      TCL_LIBS="-ltcl$version"
++      TCL_INCLUDES="$TCL_CFLAGS"
++      CPPFLAGS="$save_cppflags $TCL_CFLAGS"
+       break
+-    ])])
++  ])
+   done
+-  CPPFLAGS="$save_cppflags"
+ fi
+ 
+ if test xyes = x$with_libwww; then
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop/tcl_dev.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop/tcl_dev.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0521aaeaff..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop/tcl_dev.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
- fi
- 
- if test xno != x$with_tcl; then
--  for version in 8.4 8.3 8.2 8.1 8.0 ; do
-+  for version in "" 8.4 8.3 8.2 8.1 8.0 ; do
-     CPPFLAGS="$save_cppflags -I/usr/include/tcl$version"
-     AC_CHECK_LIB(tcl$version,Tcl_Main,[
-     AC_CHECK_HEADER(tcl.h,[
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop_1.0.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop_1.0.1.bb
index 8df96bcaa5..19da1d1aa9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop_1.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop_1.0.1.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8b54f38ccbd44feb80ab90e01af8b700"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/liboop/liboop-${PV}.tar.gz \
-           file://tcl_dev.patch \
+           file://0001-Use-pkg-config-to-find-tcl.patch \
 "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "56af16ad65e7397dadc8268e37ff6f67431db390c60c75e21a33e12b0e0d17e0"
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "56af16ad65e7397dadc8268e37ff6f67431db390c60c75e21a33e12b0e
 PACKAGECONFIG ?= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--with-readline,--without-readline,readline"
 PACKAGECONFIG[glib] = "--with-glib,--without-glib,glib-2.0 libpcre"
-PACKAGECONFIG[tcl] = "--with-tcl,--without-tcl,tcl"
+PACKAGECONFIG[tcl] = "--with-tcl,--without-tcl,tcl8"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--without-adns -without-libwww"