diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/build b/packages/devel/glib/build
index c9e443afc3..3f407e3bf9 100755
--- a/packages/devel/glib/build
+++ b/packages/devel/glib/build
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ ac_cv_func_mmap_fixed_mapped='yes' \
 ac_cv_func_posix_getpwuid_r='yes' \
 ac_cv_func_posix_getgrgid_r='yes' \
 ac_cv_func_printf_unix98='yes' \
-ac_cv_func_qsort_r='no' \
 ac_cv_func_snprintf_c99='yes' \
 ac_cv_func_vsnprintf_c99='yes' \
 glib_cv_stack_grows='no' \
diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/meta b/packages/devel/glib/meta
index efed62e0fb..158e6eb315 100644
--- a/packages/devel/glib/meta
+++ b/packages/devel/glib/meta
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="glib"
-PKG_VERSION="2.31.0"
+PKG_VERSION="2.31.8"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gtk.org/"
-PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.31/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.31/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
 PKG_DEPENDS="zlib libiconv libffi pcre"
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain zlib libiconv libffi pcre glib-host gtk-doc Python-host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"