diff --git a/srcpkgs/termbox/patches/cflags.patch b/srcpkgs/termbox/patches/cflags.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a3ca8ea2a50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/termbox/patches/cflags.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Index: termbox-1.1.2/wscript
+===================================================================
+--- termbox-1.1.2.orig/wscript
++++ termbox-1.1.2/wscript
+@@ -21,10 +21,6 @@ def configure(conf):
+ 	conf.load('gnu_dirs')
+ 	conf.load('compiler_c')
+ 	conf.env.append_unique('CFLAGS', ['-std=gnu99', '-Wall', '-Wextra', '-D_XOPEN_SOURCE'])
+-	if conf.options.debug:
+-		conf.env.append_unique('CFLAGS', ['-g', '-Og'])
+-	else:
+-		conf.env.append_unique('CFLAGS', '-O3')
+ 
+ def build(bld):
+ 	bld.recurse('src')
diff --git a/srcpkgs/termbox/patches/python-3.11.patch b/srcpkgs/termbox/patches/python-3.11.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b93020251ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/termbox/patches/python-3.11.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+Index: termbox-1.1.2/.waf3/waflib/ConfigSet.py
+===================================================================
+--- termbox-1.1.2.orig/.waf3/waflib/ConfigSet.py
++++ termbox-1.1.2/.waf3/waflib/ConfigSet.py
+@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ class ConfigSet(object):
+ 		Utils.writef(filename,''.join(buf))
+ 	def load(self,filename):
+ 		tbl=self.table
+-		code=Utils.readf(filename,m='rU')
++		code=Utils.readf(filename,m='r')
+ 		for m in re_imp.finditer(code):
+ 			g=m.group
+ 			tbl[g(2)]=eval(g(3))
+Index: termbox-1.1.2/.waf3/waflib/Context.py
+===================================================================
+--- termbox-1.1.2.orig/.waf3/waflib/Context.py
++++ termbox-1.1.2/.waf3/waflib/Context.py
+@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class Context(ctx):
+ 				cache[node]=True
+ 				self.pre_recurse(node)
+ 				try:
+-					function_code=node.read('rU')
++					function_code=node.read('r')
+ 					exec(compile(function_code,node.abspath(),'exec'),self.exec_dict)
+ 				finally:
+ 					self.post_recurse(node)
+@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ def load_module(path):
+ 		pass
+ 	module=imp.new_module(WSCRIPT_FILE)
+ 	try:
+-		code=Utils.readf(path,m='rU')
++		code=Utils.readf(path,m='r')
+ 	except(IOError,OSError):
+ 		raise Errors.WafError('Could not read the file %r'%path)
+ 	module_dir=os.path.dirname(path)
+Index: termbox-1.1.2/.waf3/waflib/Node.py
+===================================================================
+--- termbox-1.1.2.orig/.waf3/waflib/Node.py
++++ termbox-1.1.2/.waf3/waflib/Node.py
+@@ -282,7 +282,6 @@ class Node(object):
+ 					if maxdepth:
+ 						for k in node.ant_iter(accept=accept,maxdepth=maxdepth-1,pats=npats,dir=dir,src=src,remove=remove):
+ 							yield k
+-		raise StopIteration
+ 	def ant_glob(self,*k,**kw):
+ 		src=kw.get('src',True)
+ 		dir=kw.get('dir',False)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/termbox/template b/srcpkgs/termbox/template
index f1c4f8b2727..ac71fb48e27 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/termbox/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/termbox/template
@@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ homepage="https://github.com/nsf/termbox/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/nsf/termbox/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=61c9940b42b3ac44bf0cba67eacba75e3c02088b8c695149528c77def04d69b1
 
-pre_configure() {
+post_extract() {
 	# waf file is self extracting archive written in python
 	# it self extracts in top level, then runs extracted module in __main__
 	# importing allows to patch contents of archive
-	mv waf waf.py
-	python3 -c 'import waf; print(waf.wafdir + "/waflib/Node.py")' > node
-	vsed -i "$(cat node)" -e '/raise StopIteration/d'
-	rm node
-	mv waf.py waf
+	cp waf waf.py
+	sed -i '/__name__.*__main__/i sys.exit(0)' waf.py
+	python3 waf.py
+	ln -s .waf3-* .waf3
+	rm waf.py
 }
 
 post_install() {