diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/checksum.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/checksum.rs
index 550d1a76401..b726118125b 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/checksum.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/checksum.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 //
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
-// spell-checker:ignore anotherfile invalidchecksum regexes
+// spell-checker:ignore anotherfile invalidchecksum regexes JWZG
 
 use data_encoding::BASE64;
 use os_display::Quotable;
diff --git a/util/gnu-patches/tests_cksum_base64.patch b/util/gnu-patches/tests_cksum_base64.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ff9720af854
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/gnu-patches/tests_cksum_base64.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+cspell:disable-next-line: algs
+diff --git a/tests/cksum/cksum-base64.pl b/tests/cksum/cksum-base64.pl
+index a037a1628..c6d87d447 100755
+--- a/tests/cksum/cksum-base64.pl
++++ b/tests/cksum/cksum-base64.pl
+@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ my $prog = 'cksum';
+ my $fail = run_tests ($program_name, $prog, \@Tests, $save_temps, $verbose);
+ 
+ # Ensure hash names from cksum --help match those in @pairs above.
+-my $help_algs = join ' ', map { m{^  ([[:alpha:]]\S+)} }
+-  grep { m{^  ([[:alpha:]]\S+)} } split ('\n', `cksum --help`);
++my $help_algs = join ' ', map { m{^\s*-\s*([[:alpha:]]\S+):} ? $1 : () }
++   grep { m{^\s*-\s*([[:alpha:]]\S+):} } split ('\n', `cksum --help`);
+ my $test_algs = join ' ', map {$_->[0]} @pairs;
+ $help_algs eq $test_algs or die "$help_algs not equal to\n$test_algs";
+