diff --git a/packages/binutils/build.sh b/packages/binutils/build.sh
index 27f60fe92..4cc4e3f33 100755
--- a/packages/binutils/build.sh
+++ b/packages/binutils/build.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.25
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.26
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Collection of binary tools, the main ones being ld, the GNU linker, and as, the GNU assembler"
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-# TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--enable-gold"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--disable-werror"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_MAKE_ARGS="tooldir=$TERMUX_PREFIX"
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="share/man/man1/windmc.1 share/man/man1/windres.1 bin/ld.bfd"
 
diff --git a/packages/binutils/ld-emultempl-elf32.em.patch b/packages/binutils/ld-emultempl-elf32.em.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5dd80b84f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/binutils/ld-emultempl-elf32.em.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+diff -u -r ../binutils-2.26/ld/emultempl/elf32.em ./ld/emultempl/elf32.em
+--- ../binutils-2.26/ld/emultempl/elf32.em	2015-11-13 03:27:42.000000000 -0500
++++ ./ld/emultempl/elf32.em	2016-01-28 10:20:11.534910516 -0500
+@@ -115,8 +115,13 @@
+ static void
+ gld${EMULATION_NAME}_after_parse (void)
+ {
++#ifndef __ANDROID__
++  /** The Android linker does not support DF_1_PIE but prints a warning:
++      'unsupported flags DT_FLAGS_1=0x8000000'
++      due to validation in linker.cpp (see "case DT_FLAGS_1" there. */ */
+   if (bfd_link_pie (&link_info))
+     link_info.flags_1 |= (bfd_vma) DF_1_PIE;
++#endif
+ 
+   after_parse_default ();
+ }