diff --git a/packages/lang/Python3/package.mk b/packages/lang/Python3/package.mk
index 597ef43137..9796c5ce88 100644
--- a/packages/lang/Python3/package.mk
+++ b/packages/lang/Python3/package.mk
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.python.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/$PKG_VERSION/${PKG_NAME::-1}-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
 PKG_SOURCE_DIR="${PKG_NAME::-1}-$PKG_VERSION*"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="zlib:host bzip2:host libffi:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="zlib:host bzip2:host libffi:host util-linux:host"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain sqlite expat zlib bzip2 openssl Python3:host readline ncurses"
 PKG_SECTION="lang"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="python3: The Python3 programming language"
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/util-linux/package.mk b/packages/sysutils/util-linux/package.mk
index 5e53e6a193..d3c89c1c33 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/util-linux/package.mk
+++ b/packages/sysutils/util-linux/package.mk
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+# Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="util-linux"
 PKG_VERSION="2.31"
@@ -7,13 +8,14 @@ PKG_SHA256="f9be7cdcf4fc5c5064a226599acdda6bdf3d86c640152ba01ea642d91108dc8a"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_URL="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v${PKG_VERSION%-*}/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST=""
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
 PKG_DEPENDS_INIT="toolchain"
 PKG_SECTION="system"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="util-linux: Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux"
 PKG_LONGDESC="The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among many features, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login program."
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="autotools"
+PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="+pic:host"
 
 UTILLINUX_CONFIG_DEFAULT="--disable-gtk-doc \
                           --disable-nls \