diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/build b/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/build
index d71c51c390..2cfb88571e 100755
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/build
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/build
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
+export GLIB_CFLAGS="-I$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/include/glib-2.0 -I$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/lib/glib-2.0/include"
+export GLIB_LIBS="-L$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/lib -lglib-2.0"
+
 setup_toolchain host
 
 cd $PKG_BUILD
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/meta b/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/meta
index 49447fefa7..5e9565196b 100644
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/meta
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/meta
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="pkg-config"
-PKG_VERSION="0.25"
+PKG_VERSION="0.26"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/"
 PKG_URL="http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache glib-host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="toolchain/devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="pkg-config: A library configuration management system"
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/patches/pkg-config-0.25-m4_pattern_allow.patch b/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/patches/pkg-config-0.25-m4_pattern_allow.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7613fe0268..0000000000
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/pkg-config/patches/pkg-config-0.25-m4_pattern_allow.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur pkg-config-0.25-old/pkg.m4 pkg-config-0.25-new/pkg.m4
---- pkg-config-0.25-old/pkg.m4	2009-12-06 12:39:02.000000000 -0800
-+++ pkg-config-0.25-new/pkg.m4	2010-05-28 16:55:19.000000000 -0700
-@@ -26,7 +26,15 @@
- # ----------------------------------
- AC_DEFUN([PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG],
- [m4_pattern_forbid([^_?PKG_[A-Z_]+$])
--m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG(_PATH)?$])
-+m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG$])
-+m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS$])
-+m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_LIBS$])
-+m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG_DEBUG_SPEW$])
-+m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG_DISABLE_UNINSTALLED$])
-+m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR$])
-+m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG_PATH$])
-+m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR$])
-+m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG_TOP_BUILD_DIR$])
- AC_ARG_VAR([PKG_CONFIG], [path to pkg-config utility])
- AC_ARG_VAR([PKG_CONFIG_PATH], [directories to add to pkg-config's search path])
- AC_ARG_VAR([PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR], [path overriding pkg-config's built-in search path])