diff --git a/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/build b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/build
index 41c3d5b4d3..4fd8de7fe8 100755
--- a/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/build
+++ b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/build
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 $SCRIPTS/build toolchain
 $SCRIPTS/build xkbcomp
 
-SRC_DIR=`ls -d $ROOT/$PKG_BUILD`
-
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 XKBCOMP="/usr/bin/xkbcomp" \
 ./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
@@ -15,8 +13,8 @@ XKBCOMP="/usr/bin/xkbcomp" \
             --sysconfdir=/etc \
             --enable-compat-rules \
             --with-xkb-base=$XORG_PATH_XKB \
-            --disable-xkbcomp-symlink \
             --with-xkb-rules-symlink=xorg
+
 make
 
-make DESTDIR=$SRC_DIR/.install install
+make DESTDIR=`pwd`/.install install
diff --git a/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/install b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/install
index 8555b2d4e1..c0a437425d 100755
--- a/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/install
+++ b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/install
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 . config/options
 
 mkdir -p $INSTALL/$XORG_PATH_XKB
-cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/.install/$XORG_PATH_XKB/* $INSTALL/$XORG_PATH_XKB
+  cp -R $PKG_BUILD/.install/$XORG_PATH_XKB/* $INSTALL/$XORG_PATH_XKB
diff --git a/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/url b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/url
index c1596af300..600cd298e2 100644
--- a/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/url
+++ b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/url
@@ -1 +1 @@
-http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/xkbdesc/xkeyboard-config-1.8.tar.bz2
\ No newline at end of file
+http://people.freedesktop.org/~svu/xkeyboard-config-1.9.tar.bz2
\ No newline at end of file