diff --git a/packages/readline/build.sh b/packages/readline/build.sh
index b3b552497..22cb99518 100644
--- a/packages/readline/build.sh
+++ b/packages/readline/build.sh
@@ -4,13 +4,17 @@ TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, ncurses"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="bash (<< 5.0)"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="8.0"
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=e339f51971478d369f8a053a330a190781acb9864cf4c541060f12078948e461
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/readline/readline-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with-curses --enable-multibyte bash_cv_wcwidth_broken=no"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_MAKE_ARGS="SHLIB_LIBS=-lncursesw"
 TERMUX_PKG_CONFFILES="etc/inputrc"
 
+termux_step_pre_configure() {
+	CFLAGS+=" -fexceptions"
+}
+
 termux_step_post_make_install() {
 	mkdir -p $TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig
 	cp readline.pc $TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/