diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 302a98db578..2b3591b6bfe 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -252,3 +252,13 @@ single_version_override(
     patches = ["//bazel:boost_context_disable_parse_headers.patch"],
     version = BOOST_VERSION,
 )
+
+# Drop the abc -> readline dependency. The BCR overlay BUILD unconditionally
+# adds @readline and ABC_USE_READLINE; OpenROAD drives abc programmatically
+# and does not need the interactive line editor.
+single_version_override(
+    module_name = "abc",
+    patch_strip = 1,
+    patches = ["//bazel:abc_no_readline.patch"],
+    version = "0.64-yosyshq.bcr.1",
+)
diff --git a/MODULE.bazel.lock b/MODULE.bazel.lock
index 5fca85a80aa..b2a91f5fa0a 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel.lock
+++ b/MODULE.bazel.lock
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
     "https://bcr.bazel.build/modules/bant/0.2.10/MODULE.bazel": "1f74c3db56b4cfb85ec89250626712658092027dcda2e6082bddd41a7de7384a",
     "https://bcr.bazel.build/modules/bant/0.2.10/source.json": "6277f91fa835ecc8ec06ad8769ece86920e14cc1a0c77101e269a600fec47305",
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/bazel_registry.json": "8a28e4aff06ee60aed2a8c281907fb8bcbf3b753c91fb5a5c57da3215d5b3497",
-    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/abc/0.62-yosyshq/MODULE.bazel": "325231df11fd3480cb0eb3c9095105ccdfacf34583c3a92d8c0ae46967dbaef6",
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/abc/0.64-yosyshq.bcr.1/MODULE.bazel": "d1ed5b52014c8b7cf2b8a617f1c1f6e363303c92fd84c6c426281a873d0d297a",
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/abc/0.64-yosyshq.bcr.1/source.json": "6c9a69d0cabbe23d1c42d8616405c2e64eabb84e53961872ba2b9ba634c1ffdc",
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/abseil-cpp/20210324.2/MODULE.bazel": "7cd0312e064fde87c8d1cd79ba06c876bd23630c83466e9500321be55c96ace2",
@@ -579,7 +578,6 @@
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/readline/8.2.bcr.3/MODULE.bazel": "800b9efaba7e9d9fdd204f459601002adb4eac33b13c4760c9e16169bf2307a8",
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/readline/8.3.bcr.1/MODULE.bazel": "38dea764ad0ba793af4e6da1a9b6839922a56fe6620a0b3c42d3f0ca8cb714a4",
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/readline/8.3.bcr.1/source.json": "a42bf1ff95df0203dc6f94c26ca86927bf6b2cb397b7888898666b9e57c37e78",
-    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/readline/8.3/MODULE.bazel": "60b0062649137ab4c8a3521fd2a6976bcc65f16a5344c55b9132c80b361ddafe",
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/rules_android/0.1.1/MODULE.bazel": "48809ab0091b07ad0182defb787c4c5328bd3a278938415c00a7b69b50c4d3a8",
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/rules_android/0.1.1/source.json": "e6986b41626ee10bdc864937ffb6d6bf275bb5b9c65120e6137d56e6331f089e",
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oharboe/bazel-central-registry/1beaf797951046d93a2f656d4238c954a21833e5/modules/rules_apple/3.13.0/MODULE.bazel": "b4559a2c6281ca3165275bb36c1f0ac74666632adc5bdb680e366de7ce845f43",
diff --git a/bazel/abc_no_readline.patch b/bazel/abc_no_readline.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..39770935a9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bazel/abc_no_readline.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+--- a/BUILD.bazel
++++ b/BUILD.bazel
+@@ -1436,7 +1436,6 @@
+     defines = [
+         "ABC_USE_CUDD=1",
+         "ABC_USE_PTHREADS",
+-        "ABC_USE_READLINE",
+         "ABC_NAMESPACE=abc",
+         "ABC_USE_STDINT_H=1",
+     ],
+@@ -1459,7 +1458,6 @@
+     ],
+     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+     deps = [
+-        "@readline",
+         "@zlib",
+     ],
+ )