diff --git a/packages/ncurses/build.sh b/packages/ncurses/build.sh
index 5c03d89d4..5b13a9d5e 100644
--- a/packages/ncurses/build.sh
+++ b/packages/ncurses/build.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library for text-based user interfaces in a terminal-ind
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=(6.1.20181117
 		    9.22)
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=3
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=4
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=(b5568d53d31787cda727f949b68bcb60c667dba5deff72bd7ade40dbe45e4b16
 		   e94628e9bcfa0adb1115d83649f898d6edb4baced44f5d5b769c2eeb8b95addd)
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=(https://dl.bintray.com/termux/upstream/ncurses-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:3}-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:4}.tgz
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ share/man/man7
 
 termux_step_pre_configure() {
 	TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --with-pkg-config-libdir=$PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR"
-	CFLAGS+=" -fexceptions"
 }
 
 termux_step_post_make_install() {
diff --git a/packages/readline/build.sh b/packages/readline/build.sh
index bf6105ad0..b3b552497 100644
--- a/packages/readline/build.sh
+++ b/packages/readline/build.sh
@@ -4,16 +4,13 @@ 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_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/