diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gromacs/gmxDetectCpu-cmake-3.14.patch b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gromacs/gmxDetectCpu-cmake-3.14.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bd262bee5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gromacs/gmxDetectCpu-cmake-3.14.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+/cmake/gmxDetectCpu.cmake
++++ b/cmake/gmxDetectCpu.cmake
+@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ function(gmx_run_cpu_detection TYPE)
+                 set(GCC_INLINE_ASM_DEFINE "-DGMX_X86_GCC_INLINE_ASM=0")
+             endif()
+ 
+-            set(_compile_definitions "${GCC_INLINE_ASM_DEFINE} -I${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src -DGMX_CPUINFO_STANDALONE ${GMX_STDLIB_CXX_FLAGS} -DGMX_TARGET_X86=${GMX_TARGET_X86_VALUE}")
++            set(_compile_definitions ${GCC_INLINE_ASM_DEFINE} -I${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src -DGMX_CPUINFO_STANDALONE ${GMX_STDLIB_CXX_FLAGS} -DGMX_TARGET_X86=${GMX_TARGET_X86_VALUE})
+             set(LINK_LIBRARIES "${GMX_STDLIB_LIBRARIES}")
+             try_compile(CPU_DETECTION_COMPILED
+                 "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}"
+
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gromacs/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gromacs/package.py
index 2aedf025e4..51f7830207 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gromacs/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gromacs/package.py
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ class Gromacs(CMakePackage):
     depends_on('cmake@3.4.3:3.99.99', type='build', when='@2018:')
     depends_on('cuda', when='+cuda')
 
+    patch('gmxDetectCpu-cmake-3.14.patch', when='^cmake@3.14.0:')
+
     def patch(self):
         if '+plumed' in self.spec:
             self.spec['plumed'].package.apply_patch(self)