diff --git a/packages/graphics/glew/meta b/packages/graphics/glew/meta
index fe8f03a054..aef2335097 100644
--- a/packages/graphics/glew/meta
+++ b/packages/graphics/glew/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="glew"
-PKG_VERSION="1.6.0"
+PKG_VERSION="1.7.0"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
diff --git a/packages/graphics/glew/patches/glew-1.6.0-crosscompile.patch b/packages/graphics/glew/patches/glew-1.6.0-crosscompile.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 622db8f4cb..0000000000
--- a/packages/graphics/glew/patches/glew-1.6.0-crosscompile.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- glew-1.6.0/config/Makefile.linux.orig	2011-05-07 12:17:35.143944898 -0600
-+++ glew-1.6.0/config/Makefile.linux	2011-05-07 12:17:59.207718777 -0600
-@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
- NAME = $(GLEW_NAME)
--CC = cc
--LD = cc
- PICFLAG = -fPIC
- M_ARCH ?= $(shell uname -m)
--ifeq (x86_64,${M_ARCH})
--LDFLAGS.EXTRA = -L/usr/X11R6/lib64
--LIBDIR = $(GLEW_DEST)/lib64
--else
--LDFLAGS.EXTRA = -L/usr/X11R6/lib
- LIBDIR = $(GLEW_DEST)/lib
--endif
- LDFLAGS.GL = -lXmu -lXi -lGLU -lGL -lXext -lX11
- LDFLAGS.STATIC = -Wl,-Bstatic
- LDFLAGS.DYNAMIC = -Wl,-Bdynamic