diff --git a/packages/devel/dbus-glib/package.mk b/packages/devel/dbus-glib/package.mk
index 575e2eec0f..f5eb9d617c 100644
--- a/packages/devel/dbus-glib/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/dbus-glib/package.mk
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus"
 PKG_URL="http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS="dbus glib expat"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain glib-host dbus:host"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain glib:host dbus:host"
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain dbus glib expat dbus-glib:host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib-host/build b/packages/devel/glib-host/build
deleted file mode 100755
index c9da785e21..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/glib-host/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-$SCRIPTS/unpack glib
-
-# hack: we need pkg.m4 for autoreconf, but pkgconfig depends on glib so install
-# pkg.m4 first
-  $SCRIPTS/unpack pkg-config
-  cp $BUILD/pkg-config-*/pkg.m4 $TOOLCHAIN/share/aclocal
-
-setup_toolchain host
-export ZLIB_CFLAGS=""
-export ZLIB_LIBS=""
-export LIBFFI_CFLAGS="-I$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/include/libffi"
-export LIBFFI_LIBS="-L$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/lib -lffi"
-
-cd $BUILD/glib*
-
-do_autoreconf
-
-mkdir -p .build-host && cd .build-host
-../configure --host=$HOST_NAME \
-             --build=$HOST_NAME \
-             --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN \
-             --enable-shared \
-             --disable-static \
-             --with-gnu-ld \
-             --with-libiconv=no \
-             --enable-debug=no \
-             --disable-man \
-             --disable-rebuilds \
-             --disable-gtk-doc \
-
-make
-make install
-
-cp -f gobject/.libs/glib-genmarshal $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin
-cp -f gobject/glib-mkenums $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib-host/meta b/packages/devel/glib-host/meta
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a698104e7..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/glib-host/meta
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="glib-host"
-PKG_VERSION=""
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
-PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
-PKG_URL=""
-PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache libffi:host libxml2-host zlib:host Python-host"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
-PKG_SECTION="devel"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="glib-host: C support library"
-PKG_LONGDESC="GLib is a library which includes support routines for C such as lists, trees, hashes, memory allocation, and many other things."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-
-PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/build b/packages/devel/glib/build
deleted file mode 100755
index 01cd20a037..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/glib/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-# glib segfaults with LTO optimization
-  strip_lto
-
-
-cd $PKG_BUILD
-mkdir -p .build-target && cd .build-target
-
-ac_cv_func_mmap_fixed_mapped='yes' \
-ac_cv_func_posix_getpwuid_r='yes' \
-ac_cv_func_posix_getgrgid_r='yes' \
-ac_cv_func_printf_unix98='yes' \
-ac_cv_func_snprintf_c99='yes' \
-ac_cv_func_vsnprintf_c99='yes' \
-glib_cv_stack_grows='no' \
-glib_cv_uscore='no' \
-glib_cv_va_val_copy='no' \
-../configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
-             --build=$HOST_NAME \
-             --prefix=/usr \
-             --sysconfdir=/etc \
-             --localstatedir=/var \
-             --disable-silent-rules \
-             --disable-debug \
-             --disable-static \
-             --enable-shared \
-             --disable-selinux \
-             --disable-fam \
-             --enable-xattr \
-             --disable-gtk-doc \
-             --disable-man \
-             --disable-dtrace \
-             --disable-systemtap \
-             --disable-gcov \
-             --enable-Bsymbolic \
-             --with-gnu-ld \
-             --with-threads=posix \
-             --with-pcre=system \
-
-make
-$MAKEINSTALL
-
-mkdir -p $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib/pkgconfig
-  cp g*-2.0.pc $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib/pkgconfig
-
-mkdir -p $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/share/aclocal
-  cp ../m4macros/glib-gettext.m4 $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/share/aclocal
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/install b/packages/devel/glib/install
deleted file mode 100755
index 31466bafbb..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/glib/install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/glib/.libs/libglib*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/libglib*.so*T
-
-  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/gmodule/.libs/libgmodule*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/libgmodule*.so*T
-
-  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/gobject/.libs/libgobject*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/libgobject*.so*T
-
-  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/gthread/.libs/libgthread*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/libgthread*.so*T
-
-  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/gio/.libs/libgio*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/libgio*.so*T
-
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/meta b/packages/devel/glib/meta
deleted file mode 100644
index 91b4cd6575..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/glib/meta
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="glib"
-PKG_VERSION="2.34.3"
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
-PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
-PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.34/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS="zlib libffi"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain zlib libffi pcre glib-host Python-host"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
-PKG_SECTION="devel"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="glib: C support library"
-PKG_LONGDESC="GLib is a library which includes support routines for C such as lists, trees, hashes, memory allocation, and many other things."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-
-PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/package.mk b/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..77af5b7859
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="glib"
+PKG_VERSION="2.34.3"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
+PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.34/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
+PKG_DEPENDS="zlib libffi"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_HOST="ccache libffi:host libxml2-host zlib:host Python-host"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib libffi pcre glib:host Python-host"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="devel"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="glib: C support library"
+PKG_LONGDESC="GLib is a library which includes support routines for C such as lists, trees, hashes, memory allocation, and many other things."
+
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="--with-gnu-ld \
+                         --with-libiconv=no \
+                         --enable-debug=no \
+                         --disable-man \
+                         --disable-rebuilds \
+                         --disable-gtk-doc"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="ac_cv_func_mmap_fixed_mapped=yes \
+                           ac_cv_func_posix_getpwuid_r=yes \
+                           ac_cv_func_posix_getgrgid_r=yes \
+                           ac_cv_func_printf_unix98=yes \
+                           ac_cv_func_snprintf_c99=yes \
+                           ac_cv_func_vsnprintf_c99=yes \
+                           glib_cv_stack_grows=no \
+                           glib_cv_uscore=no \
+                           glib_cv_va_val_copy=no \
+                           --disable-selinux \
+                           --disable-fam \
+                           --enable-xattr \
+                           --disable-gtk-doc \
+                           --disable-man \
+                           --disable-dtrace \
+                           --disable-systemtap \
+                           --disable-gcov \
+                           --enable-Bsymbolic \
+                           --with-gnu-ld \
+                           --with-threads=posix \
+                           --with-pcre=system"
+
+pre_build_host() {
+  # hack: we need pkg.m4 for autoreconf, but pkgconfig depends on glib so install
+  # pkg.m4 first
+  $SCRIPTS/unpack pkg-config
+  cp $BUILD/pkg-config-*/pkg.m4 $TOOLCHAIN/share/aclocal
+}
+
+pre_configure_host() {
+  export ZLIB_CFLAGS=""
+  export ZLIB_LIBS=""
+  export LIBFFI_CFLAGS="-I$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/include/libffi"
+  export LIBFFI_LIBS="-L$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/lib -lffi"
+}
+
+pre_configure_target() {
+  # glib segfaults with LTO optimization
+  strip_lto
+}
+
+post_makeinstall_host() {
+  cp -f gobject/.libs/glib-genmarshal $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin
+  cp -f gobject/glib-mkenums $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin
+}
+
+post_makeinstall_target() {
+  mkdir -p $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib/pkgconfig
+    cp g*-2.0.pc $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib/pkgconfig
+
+  mkdir -p $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/share/aclocal
+    cp ../m4macros/glib-gettext.m4 $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/share/aclocal
+}
+
+post_makeinstall_target() {
+  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/bin
+  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/gdbus-2.0
+  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/lib/glib-2.0
+  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/share
+}
diff --git a/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta b/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta
index dddc638e23..b647e08e48 100644
--- a/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta
+++ b/packages/other/libIDL-host/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gnome.org"
 PKG_URL=""
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain glib-host"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain glib:host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="other"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libidl: Library for creating trees of CORBA IDL files"