diff --git a/packages/graphics/glew/meta b/packages/graphics/glew/meta
index 286065b2c7..47b37702d5 100644
--- a/packages/graphics/glew/meta
+++ b/packages/graphics/glew/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="glew"
-PKG_VERSION="1.8.0"
+PKG_VERSION="1.9.0"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
diff --git a/packages/graphics/glew/patches/glew-1.7.0-crosscompile.patch b/packages/graphics/glew/patches/glew-1.7.0-crosscompile.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fac7bebbf..0000000000
--- a/packages/graphics/glew/patches/glew-1.7.0-crosscompile.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur glew-1.7.0/config/Makefile.linux glew-1.7.0.patch/config/Makefile.linux
---- glew-1.7.0/config/Makefile.linux	2011-08-25 16:17:55.000000000 +0200
-+++ glew-1.7.0.patch/config/Makefile.linux	2012-01-27 18:52:20.764675791 +0100
-@@ -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 = $(GLEW_DEST)/lib
--endif
- LDFLAGS.GL = -lXmu -lXi -lGLU -lGL -lXext -lX11
- LDFLAGS.STATIC = -Wl,-Bstatic
- LDFLAGS.DYNAMIC = -Wl,-Bdynamic
-diff -Naur glew-1.7.0/Makefile glew-1.7.0.patch/Makefile
---- glew-1.7.0/Makefile	2012-01-27 18:50:02.004347735 +0100
-+++ glew-1.7.0.patch/Makefile	2012-01-27 18:50:27.970848891 +0100
-@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
- 
- AR = ar
- INSTALL = install
--STRIP = strip
-+STRIP ?= strip
- RM = rm -f
- LN = ln -sf
- ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS), debug)