diff --git a/srcpkgs/avr-gcc/template b/srcpkgs/avr-gcc/template
index 6d6e15f5b02..98867ae1bad 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/avr-gcc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/avr-gcc/template
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Template build file for 'avr-gcc'
 pkgname=avr-gcc
-version=4.9.3
+version=5.3.0
 revision=1
 short_desc="The GNU C Compiler for AVR"
 maintainer="allan <mail@may.mooo.com>"
 homepage="http://gcc.gnu.org"
 license="GFDL-1.2, GPL-3, LGPL-2.1"
 distfiles="$GNU_SITE/gcc/gcc-$version/gcc-$version.tar.bz2"
-checksum=2332b2a5a321b57508b9031354a8503af6fdfb868b8c1748d33028d100a8b67e
+checksum=b84f5592e9218b73dbae612b5253035a7b34a9a1f7688d2e1bfaaf7267d5c4db
 wrksrc="gcc-$version"
 only_for_archs="i686 x86_64"
 
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ do_configure() {
 	mkdir obj-avr
 	cd obj-avr
 
-	export CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
-
-	CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash ../configure \
+	CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" \
+	CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash \
+	LDFLAGS= \
+	../configure \
 		--disable-install-libiberty \
 		--disable-libssp \
 		--disable-libstdcxx-pch \
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ do_configure() {
 		--enable-__cxa_atexit \
 		--enable-checking=release \
 		--enable-clocale=gnu \
-		--enable-cloog-backend=isl \
+		--enable-gnu-indirect-function \
 		--enable-gnu-unique-object \
 		--enable-gold \
 		--enable-languages=c,c++ \
@@ -43,12 +44,11 @@ do_configure() {
 		--prefix=/usr \
 		--target=avr \
 		--with-gnu-as \
-		--with-as=/usr/bin/avr-as \
 		--with-gnu-ld \
+		--with-as=/usr/bin/avr-as \
 		--with-ld=/usr/bin/avr-ld \
 		--with-plugin-ld=ld.gold \
-		--with-system-zlib \
-		--without-included-gettext
+		--with-system-zlib
 }
 
 do_build() {
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ do_install() {
 post_install() {
 	rm -rf "$DESTDIR"/usr/share/man/man7
 	rm -rf "$DESTDIR"/usr/share/info
+	rm -rf "$DESTDIR"/usr/lib/libcc1.*
 	find "$DESTDIR"/usr/lib -type f -name "*.a" \
 		-exec avr-strip --strip-debug {} \;
 }