diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/package.mk b/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
index ddaea8c44e..7f6d6ad38d 100644
--- a/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/glib/package.mk
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="glib"
-PKG_VERSION="2.46.2"
-PKG_SHA256="5031722e37036719c1a09163cc6cf7c326e4c4f1f1e074b433c156862bd733db"
+PKG_VERSION="2.52.3"
+PKG_SHA256="25ee7635a7c0fcd4ec91cbc3ae07c7f8f5ce621d8183511f414ded09e7e4e128"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
-PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.46/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib libffi Python:host"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="libffi:host"
+PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.52/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib libffi Python:host util-linux"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="libffi:host pcre:host"
 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."
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ PKG_LONGDESC="GLib is a library which includes support routines for C such as li
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
 
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="--enable-static --disable-shared"
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="PCRE_LIBS=-l:libpcre.a \
+                         --enable-static \
+                         --disable-shared \
+                         --disable-libmount"
 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 \
diff --git a/packages/devel/pcre/package.mk b/packages/devel/pcre/package.mk
index d0b69a42d1..8f0a4faa02 100644
--- a/packages/devel/pcre/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/pcre/package.mk
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ PKG_USE_CMAKE="no"
 PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
 
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="--prefix=$TOOLCHAIN \
+             --enable-static \
              --enable-utf8 \
              --enable-unicode-properties \
              --with-gnu-ld"