diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index bbabe3a9775..646b7a620c0 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3023,7 +3023,7 @@ libkdeconnectinterfaces.so.1 kdeconnect-1.2_1
 libkdeconnectcore.so.1 kdeconnect-1.2_1
 libkpmcore.so.7 kpmcore-3.3.0_1
 libpkcs11-helper.so.1 pkcs11-helper-1.22_1
-libr2.so.2.3.0 radare2-2.3.0_1
+libr2.so.2.4.0 radare2-2.4.0_1
 libr_core.so radare2-2.2.0_1
 libr_config.so radare2-2.2.0_1
 libr_cons.so radare2-2.2.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/radare2/patches/cross-ld.patch b/srcpkgs/radare2/patches/cross-ld.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..38bf620bb10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/radare2/patches/cross-ld.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+use ${LD} instead of ld, so cross compiling / linking does not break
+
+--- mk/gcc.mk      2018-03-09 19:58:51.451543586 +0100
++++ mk/gcc.mk      2018-03-09 19:59:08.897543274 +0100
+@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
+ LDFLAGS_LIB=-dynamiclib
+ LDFLAGS_SONAME=-Wl,-install_name,${LIBDIR}/
+ else
+-PARTIALLD=ld -r --whole-archive
++PARTIALLD=${LD} -r --whole-archive
+ LDFLAGS_LIB=${LDFLAGS} -shared
+ #ifneq (${NAME},)
+ #LDFLAGS_LIB+=-Wl,-soname,lib${NAME}.${EXT_SO}.${VERSION}
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/radare2/template b/srcpkgs/radare2/template
index 96c39909d26..d8c285184f9 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/radare2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/radare2/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'radare2'
 pkgname=radare2
-version=2.3.0
+version=2.4.0
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--with-syscapstone"
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="LGPL-3"
 homepage="http://www.radare.org"
 distfiles="https://github.com/radare/radare2/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=50a5797f168b10e02bd9c4d4ff61fe0459e1b79710c27405c94753694d6b9b3c
+checksum=e2edef4d70c7bbbb47d04002ce9d384eb2fc9c0cd4cbfde77cda8c10cae9ff24