diff --git a/packages/util-linux/build.sh b/packages/util-linux/build.sh
index 48bbef2e1..d59de6d3b 100644
--- a/packages/util-linux/build.sh
+++ b/packages/util-linux/build.sh
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ Documentation/licenses/COPYING.BSD-3-Clause
 Documentation/licenses/COPYING.BSD-4-Clause-UC
 Documentation/licenses/COPYING.ISC"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.37.4
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.38
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION:0:4}/util-linux-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=634e6916ad913366c3536b6468e7844769549b99a7b2bf80314de78ab5655b83
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=6d111cbe4d55b336db2f1fbeffbc65b89908704c01136371d32aa9bec373eb64
 # libcrypt is required for only newgrp and sulogin, which are not built anyways
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses, libcap-ng, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_ESSENTIAL=true
@@ -20,11 +20,13 @@ TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="util-linux-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
 ac_cv_func_setns=yes
 ac_cv_func_unshare=yes
+ac_cv_func_uselocale=no
 --enable-setpriv
 --disable-agetty
 --disable-ctrlaltdel
 --disable-eject
 --disable-fdformat
+--disable-ipcmk
 --disable-ipcrm
 --disable-ipcs
 --disable-kill
diff --git a/packages/util-linux/configure.patch b/packages/util-linux/configure.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ba20c56ad..000000000
--- a/packages/util-linux/configure.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../util-linux-2.28/configure ./configure
---- ../util-linux-2.28/configure	2016-04-12 06:34:01.936801023 -0400
-+++ ./configure	2016-06-23 06:13:31.339362019 -0400
-@@ -24664,17 +24664,8 @@
- 
- 
- 
--  if test "x$ul_default_estate" != x; then
--  enable_ipcmk=$ul_default_estate
--  build_ipcmk=yes
--  if test "x$ul_default_estate" = xno; then
--    build_ipcmk=no
--  fi
--else
--
--  build_ipcmk=yes
--  enable_ipcmk=yes
--fi
-+  enable_ipcmk=no
-+  build_ipcmk=no
- 
-  if test "x$build_ipcmk" = xyes; then
-   BUILD_IPCMK_TRUE=