diff --git a/package/libs/elfutils/Makefile b/package/libs/elfutils/Makefile
index 0b3cecdfb..630c48820 100644
--- a/package/libs/elfutils/Makefile
+++ b/package/libs/elfutils/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2010-2014 OpenWrt.org
-# Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
+# Copyright (C) 2010-2019 OpenWrt.org
 #
 # This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
 # See /LICENSE for more information.
@@ -8,24 +7,25 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=elfutils
-PKG_VERSION:=0.175
-PKG_RELEASE:=4
+PKG_VERSION:=0.177
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://sourceware.org/$(PKG_NAME)/ftp/$(PKG_VERSION)
-PKG_HASH:=f7ef925541ee32c6d15ae5cb27da5f119e01a5ccdbe9fe57bf836730d7b7a65b
+PKG_HASH:=fa489deccbcae7d8c920f60d85906124c1989c591196d90e0fd668e3dc05042e
+
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
-PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-3.0+
+PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-3.0-or-later
 PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYING COPYING-GPLV2 COPYING-LGPLV3
 PKG_CPE_ID:=cpe:/a:elfutils_project:elfutils
-PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
 
+PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
 PKG_INSTALL:=1
 PKG_USE_MIPS16:=0
-
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=USE_UCLIBC:argp-standalone USE_MUSL:argp-standalone
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=!USE_GLIBC:argp-standalone
 
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/host-build.mk
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/nls.mk
 
 define Package/elfutils/Default
@@ -97,3 +97,4 @@ endef
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,libasm))
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,libdw))
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,libelf))
+$(eval $(call HostBuild))
diff --git a/package/libs/elfutils/patches/003-libintl-compatibility.patch b/package/libs/elfutils/patches/003-libintl-compatibility.patch
index 35a27113e..32bfaf8e6 100644
--- a/package/libs/elfutils/patches/003-libintl-compatibility.patch
+++ b/package/libs/elfutils/patches/003-libintl-compatibility.patch
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
  Requires.private: zlib
 --- a/configure.ac
 +++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -538,6 +538,9 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([config/libelf.pc config
+@@ -543,6 +543,9 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([config/libelf.pc config
  AC_SUBST(USE_NLS, yes)
  AM_PO_SUBDIRS
  
diff --git a/package/libs/elfutils/patches/100-musl-compat.patch b/package/libs/elfutils/patches/100-musl-compat.patch
index 9631ce05d..109b7ece0 100644
--- a/package/libs/elfutils/patches/100-musl-compat.patch
+++ b/package/libs/elfutils/patches/100-musl-compat.patch
@@ -44,21 +44,12 @@ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21002
  }
 --- a/libdwfl/dwfl_error.c
 +++ b/libdwfl/dwfl_error.c
-@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ __libdwfl_seterrno (Dwfl_Error error)
- const char *
- dwfl_errmsg (int error)
- {
-+  static __thread char s[64] = "";
-   if (error == 0 || error == -1)
-     {
-       int last_error = global_error;
-@@ -154,7 +155,8 @@ dwfl_errmsg (int error)
+@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ dwfl_errmsg (int error)
    switch (error &~ 0xffff)
      {
      case OTHER_ERROR (ERRNO):
 -      return strerror_r (error & 0xffff, "bad", 0);
-+      strerror_r (error & 0xffff, s, sizeof(s));
-+      return s;
++      return strerror_l (error & 0xffff, LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE);
      case OTHER_ERROR (LIBELF):
        return elf_errmsg (error & 0xffff);
      case OTHER_ERROR (LIBDW):