diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index edb4726e0d..9648d55d6b 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ libxfce4ui-1.so.0 libxfce4ui-4.9.2_1
 libxfce4kbd-private-2.so.0 libxfce4ui-4.9.2_1
 libxml++-2.6.so.2 libxml++-2.32.0_1
 libftgl.so.2 ftgl-2.1.2_1
-libGLEW.so.1.9 glew-1.9.0_1
+libGLEW.so.1.11 glew-1.11.0_1
 libsndfile.so.1 libsndfile-1.0.20_1
 libspeex.so.1 libspeex-1.1_1
 libspeexdsp.so.1 libspeex-1.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/glew/template b/srcpkgs/glew/template
index 82255f212c..e830f45f5a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/glew/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/glew/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template build file for 'glew'.
 pkgname=glew
-version=1.9.0
-revision=5
+version=1.11.0
+revision=1
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="libXext-devel libXmu-devel libXi-devel MesaLib-devel"
 short_desc="The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library"
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://glew.sourceforge.net"
 license="BSD, MIT, GPL-2"
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/glew/glew-${version}.tgz"
-checksum=9b36530e414c95d6624be9d6815a5be1531d1986300ae5903f16977ab8aeb787
+checksum=69bbce306ac281c4fa806a7a7d02c0596281a2d8f9d70690e98126f23ba513d6
 
 do_build() {
 	sed -i -e "s|lib64|lib|" config/Makefile.linux
-	make CFLAGS.EXTRA="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS.EXTRA="$LDFLAGS" ${makejobs}
+	make CFLAGS.EXTRA="-fPIC $CFLAGS" LDFLAGS.EXTRA="$LDFLAGS" ${makejobs}
 }
 
 do_install() {