diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/build b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/build
index e3e469789a..b31436f613 100755
--- a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/build
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/build
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
 . config/options $1
 
 VDR_DIR=`basename $BUILD/vdr-[0-9]*`
+
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fPIC"
+CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -fPIC"
+LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -fPIC"
+
 cd $PKG_BUILD
   PWD=`pwd`
   make VDRDIR="$PWD/../$VDR_DIR" LIBDIR="." LOCALEDIR="./locale"
diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/meta b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/meta
index 6df7ca695f..19190b9af7 100644
--- a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/meta
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="vdr-epgsearch"
-PKG_VERSION="0fc4817"
+PKG_VERSION="e2de927"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/patches/vdr-epgsearch-01_makefile.patch b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/patches/vdr-epgsearch-01_makefile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0a7bb44e85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-epgsearch/patches/vdr-epgsearch-01_makefile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index 6bb1b96..118e379 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -62,21 +62,10 @@ VERSION = $(shell grep 'static const char VERSION\[\] *=' $(PLUGIN).c | awk '{ p
+ 
+ ### The directory environment:
+ 
+-# Use package data if installed...otherwise assume we're under the VDR source directory:
+-PKGCFG   = $(if $(VDRDIR),$(shell pkg-config --variable=$(1) $(VDRDIR)/vdr.pc),$(shell pkg-config --variable=$(1) vdr || pkg-config --variable=$(1) ../../../vdr.pc))
+-LIBDIR   = $(call PKGCFG,libdir)
+-LOCDIR   = $(call PKGCFG,locdir)
+-MANDIR   = $(call PKGCFG,mandir)
+-CONFDIR  = $(call PKGCFG,configdir)
+-BINDIR   = $(call PKGCFG,bindir)
+-#
+ TMPDIR ?= /tmp
+ 
+ ### The compiler options:
+ 
+-export CFLAGS   = $(call PKGCFG,cflags)
+-export CXXFLAGS = $(call PKGCFG,cxxflags)
+-
+ ### configuring modules
+ ifeq ($(AUTOCONFIG),1)
+ 	ifeq (exists, $(shell pkg-config libpcre && echo exists))
+@@ -92,9 +81,11 @@ ifeq ($(AUTOCONFIG),1)
+ 	endif
+ endif
+ 
++include $(VDRDIR)/Make.global
++
+ ### The version number of VDR's plugin API:
+ 
+-APIVERSION = $(call PKGCFG,apiversion)
++APIVERSION = $(shell sed -ne '/define APIVERSION/s/^.*"\(.*\)".*$$/\1/p' $(VDRDIR)/config.h)
+ 
+ ### The name of the distribution archive:
+ 
+@@ -103,7 +94,7 @@ PACKAGE = vdr-$(ARCHIVE)
+ 
+ ### Includes and Defines (add further entries here):
+ 
+-INCLUDES +=
++INCLUDES += -I$(VDRDIR)/include
+ 
+ DEFINES += 
+ 
+@@ -231,15 +222,19 @@ install-i18n: $(I18Nmsgs)
+ 
+ libvdr-$(PLUGIN).so: $(OBJS)
+ 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared $(OBJS) $(LIBS) -o $@
++	@cp --remove-destination $@ $(LIBDIR)/$@.$(APIVERSION)
+ 
+ libvdr-$(PLUGIN2).so: $(OBJS2)
+ 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared $(OBJS2) $(LIBS2) -o $@
++	@cp --remove-destination $@ $(LIBDIR)/$@.$(APIVERSION)
+ 
+ libvdr-$(PLUGIN3).so: $(OBJS3)
+ 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared $(OBJS3) $(LIBS3) -o $@
++	@cp --remove-destination $@ $(LIBDIR)/$@.$(APIVERSION)
+ 
+ libvdr-$(PLUGIN4).so: $(OBJS4)
+ 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared $(OBJS4) $(LIBS4) -o $@
++	@cp --remove-destination $@ $(LIBDIR)/$@.$(APIVERSION)
+ 
+ createcats: createcats.o Makefile
+ 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) createcats.o -o $@