diff --git a/packages/sysutils/e2fsprogs/package.mk b/packages/sysutils/e2fsprogs/package.mk
index b4e0cb2f92..1b9e4326ed 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/e2fsprogs/package.mk
+++ b/packages/sysutils/e2fsprogs/package.mk
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="e2fsprogs"
-PKG_VERSION="1.42.8"
+PKG_VERSION="1.42.10"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ if [ "$HFSTOOLS" = "yes" ]; then
   PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="$PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET diskdev_cmds"
 fi
 
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--prefix=/usr \
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="BUILD_CC=$HOST_CC \
+                           --prefix=/usr \
                            --bindir=/bin \
                            --sbindir=/sbin \
                            --enable-verbose-makecmds \
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/e2fsprogs/patches/e2fsprogs-crosscompiling.patch b/packages/sysutils/e2fsprogs/patches/e2fsprogs-crosscompiling.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..64ed71ebc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/sysutils/e2fsprogs/patches/e2fsprogs-crosscompiling.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -Naur e2fsprogs-1.42.10/configure.in e2fsprogs-1.42.10.patch/configure.in
+--- e2fsprogs-1.42.10/configure.in	2014-05-15 19:04:08.000000000 +0200
++++ e2fsprogs-1.42.10.patch/configure.in	2014-06-04 13:19:36.701586827 +0200
+@@ -1328,8 +1328,8 @@
+    BUILD_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $INCLUDES -DHAVE_CONFIG_H"
+    BUILD_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
+ else
+-   BUILD_CFLAGS=
+-   BUILD_LDFLAGS=
++   BUILD_CFLAGS="$BUILD_CFLAGS $INCLUDES -DHAVE_CONFIG_H"
++   BUILD_LDFLAGS="$BUILD_LDFLAGS"
+ fi
+ AC_SUBST(BUILD_CFLAGS)
+ AC_SUBST(BUILD_LDFLAGS)