diff --git a/libs/npth/Makefile b/libs/npth/Makefile
index a7c25470b1..14618d4f35 100644
--- a/libs/npth/Makefile
+++ b/libs/npth/Makefile
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=npth
-PKG_VERSION:=1.6
+PKG_VERSION:=1.8
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/$(PKG_NAME)
-PKG_HASH:=1393abd9adcf0762d34798dc34fdcf4d0d22a8410721e76f1e3afcd1daa4e2d1
+PKG_HASH:=8bd24b4f23a3065d6e5b26e98aba9ce783ea4fd781069c1b35d149694e90ca3e
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
 PKG_LICENSE:=LGPL-2.1-or-later
@@ -30,15 +30,32 @@ define Package/libnpth/description
 nPth is a library to provide the GNU Pth API and thus a non-preemptive threads implementation. 
 endef
 
+CONFIGURE_ARGS = \
+		--target=$(REAL_GNU_TARGET_NAME) \
+		--host=$(REAL_GNU_TARGET_NAME) \
+		--build=$(GNU_HOST_NAME) \
+		--disable-dependency-tracking \
+		--program-prefix="" \
+		--program-suffix="" \
+		--prefix=$(CONFIGURE_PREFIX) \
+		--exec-prefix=$(CONFIGURE_PREFIX) \
+		--bindir=$(CONFIGURE_PREFIX)/bin \
+		--sbindir=$(CONFIGURE_PREFIX)/sbin \
+		--libexecdir=$(CONFIGURE_PREFIX)/lib \
+		--sysconfdir=/etc \
+		--datadir=$(CONFIGURE_PREFIX)/share \
+		--localstatedir=/var \
+		--mandir=$(CONFIGURE_PREFIX)/man \
+		--infodir=$(CONFIGURE_PREFIX)/info
+
 define Build/InstallDev
-	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(2)/bin $(1)/usr/bin
-	$(INSTALL_BIN) \
-		$(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/bin/npth-config \
-		$(2)/bin/
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) \
+		$(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/lib/pkgconfig/npth.pc \
+		$(1)/usr/lib/pkgconfig
 	$(SED) \
 		's,^\(prefix\|exec_prefix\)=.*,\1=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr,g' \
-		$(2)/bin/npth-config
-	ln -sf $(STAGING_DIR)/host/bin/npth-config $(1)/usr/bin/npth-config
+		$(1)/usr/lib/pkgconfig/npth.pc \
 
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/include
 	$(INSTALL_DATA) \