diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcre.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcre.template
index 6eb193d0b4f..d40bc2d974f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcre.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcre.template
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'libpcre'.
 #
 short_desc="${short_desc} - shared libraries"
-long_desc="${long_desc}
-
- This package contains the shared libraries for use in client programs."
-
 replaces="pcre<8.11"
 
 do_install() {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcrecpp.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcrecpp.template
index a840c2207d6..68b5113ea49 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcrecpp.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcrecpp.template
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'libpcrecpp'.
 #
 short_desc="${short_desc} - C++ shared libraries"
-long_desc="${long_desc}
-
- This package contains the C++ shared library for use in
- client programs."
 
 do_install() {
 	vmove "usr/lib/libpcrecpp.so*" usr/lib
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
index f0f301cf9e2..3b6fbb32f54 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
 noarch=yes
 depends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libpcre>=${version} libpcrecpp>=${version}"
 short_desc="${short_desc} (development files)"
-long_desc="${long_desc}
-
- This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
 
 do_install() {
 	vmove usr/bin/pcre-config usr/bin
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/template b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
index 6c33365a6e5..b5496eaa72b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
@@ -1,23 +1,27 @@
 # Template file for 'pcre'
 pkgname=pcre
 version=8.32
-revision=1
+revision=2
 subpackages="libpcre libpcrecpp pcre-devel"
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties --with-pic
 --enable-pcregrep-libz --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 --enable-newline-is-anycrlf
 --enable-pcretest-libreadline --disable-pcregrep-jit --enable-jit
 --disable-static"
-makedepends="zlib-devel readline-devel"
+makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel readline-devel"
+crossmakedepends="${makedepends}"
 short_desc="Perl Compatible Regular Expressions"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.pcre.org/"
 license="BSD"
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/pcre/pcre-$version.tar.bz2"
 checksum=a913fb9bd058ef380a2d91847c3c23fcf98e92dc3b47cd08a53c021c5cde0f55
-long_desc="
- The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression
- pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE
- has its own native API, as well as a set of wrapper functions that
- correspond to the POSIX regular expression API. The PCRE library is free,
- even for building commercial software."
+
+if [ "$XBPS_CROSS_TRIPLET" ]; then
+	makedepends="automake ${makedepends}"
+
+pre_configure() {
+	autoreconf -fi
+}
+
+fi