diff --git a/packages/devel/flex/package.mk b/packages/devel/flex/package.mk
index 1473535c41..0d992066c2 100644
--- a/packages/devel/flex/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/flex/package.mk
@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://github.com/westes/flex"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/download/v${PKG_VERSION}/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="ccache:host m4:host autotools:host bison:host"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain flex:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A tool for generating programs that perform pattern-matching on text."
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="autotools"
 
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="--enable-static --disable-shared --disable-rpath --with-gnu-ld"
 
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes \
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--disable-bootstrap \
+                           ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes \
                            ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes"
 
 post_makeinstall_host() {
diff --git a/packages/devel/flex/patches/flex-0001-use-flex-host-for-target-cross-compile.patch b/packages/devel/flex/patches/flex-0001-use-flex-host-for-target-cross-compile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6d9ef2fd6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/flex/patches/flex-0001-use-flex-host-for-target-cross-compile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/src/Makefile.am	2025-05-25 13:43:29.363027456 +0000
++++ b/src/Makefile.am	2025-05-25 13:44:38.701129436 +0000
+@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
+ 	./stage1flex$(EXEEXT) $(AM_LFLAGS) $(LFLAGS) -o $@ $(srcdir)/scan.l
+ else
+ stage1scan.c: scan.c
+-	sed 's|^\(#line .*\)"'`printf %s $< | sed 's|[][\\\\.*]|\\\\&|g'`'"|\1"$@"|g' $< > $@
++	../../.$(HOST_NAME)/src/stage1flex$(EXEEXT) $(AM_LFLAGS) $(LFLAGS) -o $@ $(srcdir)/scan.l
+ endif
+ 
+ dist-hook: scan.l flex$(EXEEXT)