diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
index 38dfc5c40d..f0f301cf9e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
 # Template file for 'pcre-devel'.
 #
-depends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libpcre libpcrecpp"
+noarch=yes
+depends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libpcre>=${version} libpcrecpp>=${version}"
 short_desc="${short_desc} (development files)"
 long_desc="${long_desc}
 
  This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
 
-
-
 do_install() {
 	vmove usr/bin/pcre-config usr/bin
 	vmove usr/include usr
-	vmove "usr/lib/*.a" usr/lib
 	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
 	vmove usr/share/man/man1/pcre-config.1 usr/share/man/man1
 	vmove usr/share/man/man3 usr/share/man
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/template b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
index 4dc32a967d..5499aab5ff 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
 # Template file for 'pcre'
 pkgname=pcre
-version=8.30
+version=8.31
 revision=1
 subpackages="libpcre libpcrecpp pcre-devel"
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties --with-pic
 --enable-pcregrep-libz --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 --enable-newline-is-anycrlf
---enable-pcretest-libreadline --disable-pcregrep-jit --enable-jit"
+--enable-pcretest-libreadline --disable-pcregrep-jit --enable-jit
+--disable-static"
 makedepends="zlib-devel readline-devel"
 short_desc="Perl Compatible Regular Expressions"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.pcre.org/"
 license="BSD"
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/pcre/pcre-$version.tar.bz2"
-checksum=c1113fd7db934e97ad8b3917d432e5b642e9eb9afd127eb797804937c965f4ac
+checksum=5778a02535473c7ee7838ea598c19f451e63cf5eec0bf0307a688301c9078c3c
 long_desc="
  The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression
  pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE