diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/inotify-tools/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/inotify-tools/package.mk
index e5f0a0de5f..385380261d 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/inotify-tools/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/inotify-tools/package.mk
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="inotify-tools"
-PKG_VERSION="3.22.6.0"
-PKG_SHA256="c6b7e70f1df09e386217102a1fe041cfc15fa4f3d683d2970140b6814cf2ed12"
+PKG_VERSION="4.23.8.0"
+PKG_SHA256="8ad8b72a146af57688f3289b33b92a026915fc677997147071887b65b603d20a"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPLv2"
 PKG_SITE="http://wiki.github.com/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/archive/${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-sysroot"
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--enable-static --disable-shared --disable-doxygen"
 
 pre_configure_target() {
-  CFLAGS+=" -Wno-error=misleading-indentation -Wno-error=unused-parameter"
+  CXXFLAGS+=" -Wno-error=unused-parameter"
 }
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/inotify-tools/patches/0001-fix-build-when-being-done-out-of-tree.patch b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/inotify-tools/patches/0001-fix-build-when-being-done-out-of-tree.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dccdc9ef9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/inotify-tools/patches/0001-fix-build-when-being-done-out-of-tree.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From 0abc50311077e9475036e8996f2f4a703676c221 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum.com>
+Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:49:21 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] fix build when being done out of tree
+
+use relative pathes for includes
+---
+ src/Makefile.am | 8 ++++----
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
+index 854a101..46473ca 100644
+--- a/src/Makefile.am
++++ b/src/Makefile.am
+@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ fsnotifywatch_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) -DENABLE_FANOTIFY
+ endif
+ 
+ if IS_CLANG
+-AM_CFLAGS = -std=c99 -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Werror -Wno-unused-command-line-argument -I../libinotifytools/src
+-AM_CPPFLAGS = -std=c++17 -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Werror -Wno-unused-command-line-argument -I../libinotifytools/src
++AM_CFLAGS = -std=c99 -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Werror -Wno-unused-command-line-argument -I../libinotifytools/src -I$(srcdir)/../libinotifytools/src
++AM_CPPFLAGS = -std=c++17 -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Werror -Wno-unused-command-line-argument -I../libinotifytools/src -I$(srcdir)/../libinotifytools/src
+ else
+-AM_CFLAGS = -std=c99 -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Werror -I../libinotifytools/src
+-AM_CPPFLAGS = -std=c++17 -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Werror -I../libinotifytools/src
++AM_CFLAGS = -std=c99 -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Werror -I../libinotifytools/src -I$(srcdir)/../libinotifytools/src
++AM_CPPFLAGS = -std=c++17 -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Werror -I../libinotifytools/src -I$(srcdir)/../libinotifytools/src
+ endif
+ 
+ LDADD = ../libinotifytools/src/libinotifytools.la
+-- 
+2.34.1
+