diff --git a/doxygen.spec b/doxygen.spec
index e512ca09b0993d22cabd6608a34bebcdc9bf1d8e..e874df58b40a112d543d12e05fbf0014cb567935 100644
--- a/doxygen.spec
+++ b/doxygen.spec
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@
 Name:                doxygen
 Epoch:               1
 Version:             1.8.17
-Release:             2
+Release:             3
 Summary:             A documentation system for C/C++
 License:             GPL+
 Url:                 http://www.doxygen.nl
 Source0:             http://doxygen.nl/files/%{name}-%{version}.src.tar.gz
 Source1:             doxywizard.desktop
+
+Patch1:              test_suite_is_failing.patch
+
 BuildRequires:       python3 ImageMagick gcc-c++ gcc perl-interpreter
 BuildRequires:       tex(dvips) tex(latex) tex(multirow.sty) tex(sectsty.sty) tex(tocloft.sty)
 BuildRequires:       tex(xtab.sty) tex(import.sty) tex(tabu.sty) tex(appendix.sty)
@@ -94,6 +97,9 @@ make tests -C %{BuildDir}
 %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/doxywizard.png
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Dec 02 2020 shixuantong <shixuantong@huawei.com> - 1.8.17-3
+- fix test suite fail
+
 * Tue Dec 01 2020 shixuantong <shixuantong@huawei.com> - 1.8.17-2
 - add doxygen-help to provides and obsoletes
 
diff --git a/test_suite_is_failing.patch b/test_suite_is_failing.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c2c53c5df3483f9b068f8580a716abf97043b065
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_suite_is_failing.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+From cd9dee013dc749a10bbe019c350e0e62b6635795 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: albert-github <albert.tests@gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 17:51:53 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] issue #7464 1.8.17: test suite is failing
+
+On Windows the syntax with the command and arguments in one string worked but on *nix (and Cygwin) it didn't.
+- changed calls to Popen to split command (see also: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html).
+- explicitly specify files to check for xhtml
+- changed call to xmllint for xhtml and docbook (due to stdout overflow in some cases, we are not really interested in the, formatted, output of xmllint).
+- in the update part a `read` was left, should have been removed.
+---
+ testing/runtests.py | 19 ++++++++++++-------
+ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/testing/runtests.py b/testing/runtests.py
+index a4118b865..10fe50214 100755
+--- a/testing/runtests.py
++++ b/testing/runtests.py
+@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
+ from __future__ import print_function
+ import argparse, glob, itertools, re, shutil, os, sys
+ import subprocess
++import shlex
+ 
+ config_reg = re.compile('.*\/\/\s*(?P<name>\S+):\s*(?P<value>.*)$')
+ 
+@@ -28,10 +29,10 @@ def xpopen(cmd, cmd1="",encoding='utf-8-sig', getStderr=False):
+ 		return os.popen(cmd).read() # Python 2 without encoding
+ 	else:
+ 		if (getStderr):
+-			proc = subprocess.run(cmd1,encoding=encoding,capture_output=True) # Python 3 with encoding
+-			return proc.stderr
++			proc = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(cmd1),stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE,encoding=encoding) # Python 3 with encoding
++			return proc.stderr.read()
+ 		else:
+-			proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE,encoding=encoding) # Python 3 with encoding
++			proc = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(cmd),stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE,encoding=encoding) # Python 3 with encoding
+ 			return proc.stdout.read()
+ 
+ class Tester:
+@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ def prepare_test(self):
+ 				print('GENERATE_DOCBOOK=NO', file=f)
+ 			if (self.args.xhtml):
+ 				print('GENERATE_HTML=YES', file=f)
+-			# HTML_OUTPUT can also be set locally
++			# HTML_OUTPUT can also have been set locally
+ 			print('HTML_OUTPUT=%s/html' % self.test_out, file=f)
+ 			print('HTML_FILE_EXTENSION=.xhtml', file=f)
+ 			if (self.args.pdf):
+@@ -184,7 +185,7 @@ def update_test(self,testmgr):
+ 					print('Non-existing file %s after \'check:\' statement' % check_file)
+ 					return
+ 				# convert output to canonical form
+-				data = xpopen('%s --format --noblanks --nowarning %s' % (self.args.xmllint,check_file)).read()
++				data = xpopen('%s --format --noblanks --nowarning %s' % (self.args.xmllint,check_file))
+ 				if data:
+ 					# strip version
+ 					data = re.sub(r'xsd" version="[0-9.-]+"','xsd" version=""',data).rstrip('\n')
+@@ -326,7 +327,7 @@ def perform_test(self,testmgr):
+ 			tests.append(glob.glob('%s/*.xml' % (docbook_output)))
+ 			tests.append(glob.glob('%s/*/*/*.xml' % (docbook_output)))
+ 			tests = ' '.join(list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(tests))).replace(self.args.outputdir +'/','').replace('\\','/')
+-			exe_string = '%s --nonet --postvalid %s' % (self.args.xmllint,tests)
++			exe_string = '%s --noout --nonet --postvalid %s' % (self.args.xmllint,tests)
+ 			exe_string1 = exe_string
+ 			exe_string += ' %s' % (redirx)
+ 			exe_string += ' %s more "%s/temp"' % (separ,docbook_output)
+@@ -346,7 +347,11 @@ def perform_test(self,testmgr):
+ 				redirx=' 2> %s/temp >nul:'%html_output
+ 			else:
+ 				redirx='2>%s/temp >/dev/null'%html_output
+-			exe_string = '%s --path dtd --nonet --postvalid %s/*xhtml' % (self.args.xmllint,html_output)
++			check_file = []
++			check_file.append(glob.glob('%s/*.xhtml' % (html_output)))
++			check_file.append(glob.glob('%s/*/*/*.xhtml' % (html_output)))
++			check_file = ' '.join(list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(check_file))).replace(self.args.outputdir +'/','').replace('\\','/')
++			exe_string = '%s --noout --path dtd --nonet --postvalid %s' % (self.args.xmllint,check_file)
+ 			exe_string1 = exe_string
+ 			exe_string += ' %s' % (redirx)
+ 			exe_string += ' %s more "%s/temp"' % (separ,html_output)