diff --git a/packages/libbz2/build.sh b/packages/libbz2/build.sh
index 13bc864e17..c7537e39b5 100644
--- a/packages/libbz2/build.sh
+++ b/packages/libbz2/build.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.bzip.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="BZ2 format compression library"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.0.7
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.0.8
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://fossies.org/linux/misc/bzip2-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=3a704a84a4b98fc88b0cfc5d3b6bab8edd658133fda4de09ec7512b2dfb49d81
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=47fd74b2ff83effad0ddf62074e6fad1f6b4a77a96e121ab421c20a216371a1f
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_MAKE_ARGS="PREFIX=$TERMUX_PREFIX"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
 
diff --git a/packages/libbz2/bzdiff.patch b/packages/libbz2/bzdiff.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..09d6f3819f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libbz2/bzdiff.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff -uNr bzip2-1.0.8/bzdiff bzip2-1.0.8.mod/bzdiff
+--- bzip2-1.0.8/bzdiff	2019-07-13 20:50:05.000000000 +0300
++++ bzip2-1.0.8.mod/bzdiff	2019-07-20 11:46:36.090211623 +0300
+@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@
+                 case "$2" in
+ 	        *.bz2)
+ 			F=`echo "$2" | sed 's|.*/||;s|.bz2$||'`
+-			tmp=`mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"/bzdiff.XXXXXXXXXX` || {
++			tmp=`mktemp "${TMPDIR:-@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp}"/bzdiff.XXXXXXXXXX` || {
+ 			      echo 'cannot create a temporary file' >&2
+ 			      exit 1
+ 			}
+                         bzip2 -cdfq "$2" > "$tmp"
+                         bzip2 -cdfq "$1" | $comp $OPTIONS - "$tmp"
+                         STAT="$?"
+-			/bin/rm -f "$tmp";;
++			rm -f "$tmp";;
+
+                 *)      bzip2 -cdfq "$1" | $comp $OPTIONS - "$2"
+                         STAT="$?";;
diff --git a/packages/libbz2/fix-paths.patch b/packages/libbz2/fix-paths.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 36490b1a80..0000000000
--- a/packages/libbz2/fix-paths.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-diff -uNr bzip2-1.0.6/bzdiff bzip2-1.0.6.mod/bzdiff
---- bzip2-1.0.6/bzdiff	2007-01-03 04:00:55.000000000 +0200
-+++ bzip2-1.0.6.mod/bzdiff	2019-03-01 20:44:12.401418675 +0200
-@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
- 	echo "Usage: $prog [${comp}_options] file [file]"
- 	exit 1
- fi
--tmp=`mktemp ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/bzdiff.XXXXXXXXXX` || {
-+tmp=`mktemp ${TMPDIR:-@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp}/bzdiff.XXXXXXXXXX` || {
-       echo 'cannot create a temporary file' >&2
-       exit 1
- }
-@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
-                         bzip2 -cdfq "$2" > $tmp
-                         bzip2 -cdfq "$1" | $comp $OPTIONS - $tmp
-                         STAT="$?"
--			/bin/rm -f $tmp;;
-+			rm -f $tmp;;
- 
-                 *)      bzip2 -cdfq "$1" | $comp $OPTIONS - "$2"
-                         STAT="$?";;
diff --git a/packages/libbz2/shared_library.patch b/packages/libbz2/shared_library.patch
index ee8066f19a..1cdd4abcc6 100644
--- a/packages/libbz2/shared_library.patch
+++ b/packages/libbz2/shared_library.patch
@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@
-diff -uNr bzip2-1.0.7/Makefile-libbz2_so bzip2-1.0.7.mod/Makefile-libbz2_so
---- bzip2-1.0.7/Makefile-libbz2_so	2019-06-27 21:15:39.000000000 +0300
-+++ bzip2-1.0.7.mod/Makefile-libbz2_so	2019-07-07 14:27:21.338209706 +0300
-@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@
+diff -uNr bzip2-1.0.8/Makefile-libbz2_so bzip2-1.0.8.mod/Makefile-libbz2_so
+--- bzip2-1.0.8/Makefile-libbz2_so	2019-07-13 20:50:05.000000000 +0300
++++ bzip2-1.0.8.mod/Makefile-libbz2_so	2019-07-20 11:51:36.370015038 +0300
+@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@
  
  
  SHELL=/bin/sh
 -CC=gcc
++CC ?= gcc
  BIGFILES=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
 -CFLAGS=-fpic -fPIC -Wall -Winline -O2 -g $(BIGFILES)
++CFLAGS ?= -fpic -fPIC -Wall -Winline -O2 -g $(BIGFILES)
  
  OBJS= blocksort.o  \
        huffman.o    \
-@@ -35,8 +33,8 @@
+@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
        bzlib.o
  
  all: $(OBJS)
--	$(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1.0 -o libbz2.so.1.0.7 $(OBJS)
--	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.7
-+	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1.0 -o libbz2.so.1.0.7 $(OBJS)
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.7
+-	$(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1.0 -o libbz2.so.1.0.8 $(OBJS)
+-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.8
++	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libbz2.so.1.0 -o libbz2.so.1.0.8 $(OBJS)
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o bzip2-shared bzip2.c libbz2.so.1.0.8
  	rm -f libbz2.so.1.0
- 	ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.7 libbz2.so.1.0
+ 	ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.8 libbz2.so.1.0