diff --git a/disabled-packages/nodejs5/build.sh b/disabled-packages/nodejs5/build.sh
index 5b89a2dd8..f354a19ea 100644
--- a/disabled-packages/nodejs5/build.sh
+++ b/disabled-packages/nodejs5/build.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # segfaults in v8::internal::DoubleToRadixCString() at ../deps/v8/src/conversions.cc:445
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://nodejs.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=5.2.0
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=5.3.0
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://nodejs.org/dist/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/node-v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--dest-os=android --shared-openssl --shared-zlib --shared-libuv"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--dest-os=android --shared-openssl --shared-zlib --shared-libuv --without-snapshot"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="openssl, libuv"
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="lib/node_modules/npm/html lib/node_modules/npm/make.bat share/systemtap lib/dtrace"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
diff --git a/disabled-packages/nodejs5/node.gyp.patch b/disabled-packages/nodejs5/node.gyp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ffeeeea71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/disabled-packages/nodejs5/node.gyp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+diff -u -r ../node-v5.3.0/node.gyp ./node.gyp
+--- ../node-v5.3.0/node.gyp	2015-12-16 13:49:23.000000000 -0500
++++ ./node.gyp	2015-12-25 23:03:42.313063892 -0500
+@@ -670,31 +670,6 @@
+           ],
+         } ],
+       ]
+-    },
+-    {
+-      'target_name': 'cctest',
+-      'type': 'executable',
+-      'dependencies': [
+-        'deps/gtest/gtest.gyp:gtest',
+-        'deps/v8/tools/gyp/v8.gyp:v8',
+-        'deps/v8/tools/gyp/v8.gyp:v8_libplatform'
+-      ],
+-      'include_dirs': [
+-        'src',
+-        'deps/v8/include'
+-      ],
+-      'defines': [
+-        # gtest's ASSERT macros conflict with our own.
+-        'GTEST_DONT_DEFINE_ASSERT_EQ=1',
+-        'GTEST_DONT_DEFINE_ASSERT_GE=1',
+-        'GTEST_DONT_DEFINE_ASSERT_GT=1',
+-        'GTEST_DONT_DEFINE_ASSERT_LE=1',
+-        'GTEST_DONT_DEFINE_ASSERT_LT=1',
+-        'GTEST_DONT_DEFINE_ASSERT_NE=1',
+-      ],
+-      'sources': [
+-        'test/cctest/util.cc',
+-      ],
+     }
+   ], # end targets
+