diff --git a/srcpkgs/openssh/patches/libressl.patch b/srcpkgs/openssh/patches/libressl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..564550ead3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/openssh/patches/libressl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Index: configure.ac
+===================================================================
+RCS file: /var/cvs/openssh/configure.ac,v
+retrieving revision 1.577
+diff -u -p -r1.577 configure.ac
+--- configure.ac	3 Jul 2014 01:54:19 -0000	1.577
++++ configure.ac	13 Jul 2014 23:34:33 -0000
+@@ -1575,10 +1575,6 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([ \
+ 	Blowfish_expandstate \
+ 	Blowfish_expand0state \
+ 	Blowfish_stream2word \
+-	arc4random \
+-	arc4random_buf \
+-	arc4random_stir \
+-	arc4random_uniform \
+ 	asprintf \
+ 	b64_ntop \
+ 	__b64_ntop \
+@@ -2639,6 +2635,13 @@ fi
+ 
+ AC_SUBST([TEST_SSH_ECC])
+ AC_SUBST([COMMENT_OUT_ECC])
++
++AC_CHECK_FUNCS([ \
++	arc4random \
++	arc4random_buf \
++	arc4random_stir \
++	arc4random_uniform \
++])
+ 
+ saved_LIBS="$LIBS"
+ AC_CHECK_LIB([iaf], [ia_openinfo], [
diff --git a/srcpkgs/openssh/template b/srcpkgs/openssh/template
index 8afd8a2c038..249d0f8958d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/openssh/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/openssh/template
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ _desc="The OpenSSH implementation of SSH protocol"
 
 pkgname=openssh
 version=6.6p1
-revision=7
+revision=8
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--without-tcp-wrappers --datadir=/usr/share/openssh
  --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh --without-selinux --with-privsep-user=nobody
  --with-mantype=man --without-rpath --with-xauth=/usr/bin/xauth
  --with-ssl-engine --disable-strip --with-privsep-path=/var/chroot/ssh
  --with-pid-dir=/run --with-pam --with-pie --without-kerberos5 LD=$CC"
-hostmakedepends="libtool perl"
-makedepends="zlib-devel openssl-devel pam-devel"
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool perl"
+makedepends="zlib-devel libressl-devel pam-devel"
 short_desc="${_desc} - client"
 replaces="openssh-client<6.1p1"
 conf_files="/etc/ssh/moduli /etc/ssh/ssh_config"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ pre_configure() {
 		patch -sNp1 -i identpersist.patch
 		msg_normal "$pkgver: applied identitypersist patch.\n"
 	fi
-	libtoolize -f
+	autoreconf -fi
 }
 
 post_install() {