diff --git a/extra/lensfun/PKGBUILD b/extra/lensfun/PKGBUILD
index 7bb888e6e..1ff1b1075 100644
--- a/extra/lensfun/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/lensfun/PKGBUILD
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #  - disable vectorization, ensure our cflags get used to build
 
 pkgname=lensfun
-pkgver=0.2.7
+pkgver=0.2.8
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Database of photographic lenses and a library that allows advanced access to the database"
 arch=(i686 x86_64)
@@ -13,11 +13,14 @@ url="http://lensfun.berlios.de/"
 license=('LGPL3')
 depends=('glibc' 'glib2')
 makedepends=('python2' 'libpng' 'doxygen')
-source=("http://download.berlios.de/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2")
+source=("http://download.berlios.de/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2"
+         lensfun-0.2.8-make-4.0.patch)
 
 prepare() {
     cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
     sed -i 's|#!/usr/bin/python|#!/usr/bin/python2|' configure
+    # fix configure script for make 4.0
+    patch -Np0 -i "${srcdir}/lensfun-0.2.8-make-4.0.patch"
 }
 
 build() {
@@ -33,4 +36,5 @@ package() {
     cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
     make INSTALL_PREFIX="$pkgdir" install
 }
-md5sums=('6061cc2d00a42d3e62512878426fc841')
+md5sums=('db2988505e7432c6b331aa597789c639'
+         '9464d933a5e4ccefed7fc38656a9ec18')
diff --git a/extra/lensfun/lensfun-0.2.3-as-needed.patch b/extra/lensfun/lensfun-0.2.3-as-needed.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 12287dba2..000000000
--- a/extra/lensfun/lensfun-0.2.3-as-needed.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru lensfun-0.2.3.orig/build/mak/compiler/gcc.mak lensfun-0.2.3/build/mak/compiler/gcc.mak
---- lensfun-0.2.3.orig/build/mak/compiler/gcc.mak	2009-03-15 02:42:40.000000000 +0100
-+++ lensfun-0.2.3/build/mak/compiler/gcc.mak	2009-03-15 02:43:37.000000000 +0100
-@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
- endef
- 
- LINK.GCC.AR = $(GCC.AR) $(GCC.ARFLAGS) $@ $^
--LINK.GCC.EXEC = $(GCC.LD) -o $@ $(GCC.LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $1 $^ $(GCC.LDFLAGS.LIBS) $(LDFLAGS.LIBS) $2
-+LINK.GCC.EXEC = $(GCC.LD) $(LDFLAGS) $^ $2 $(GCC.LDFLAGS.LIBS) $(LDFLAGS.LIBS) $(GCC.LDFLAGS) $1 -o $@
- define LINK.GCC.SO
- 	$(GCC.LD) -o $@.$(SHARED.$3) -Wl,"-soname=$(notdir $@).$(basename $(basename $(SHARED.$3)))" $(GCC.LDFLAGS.SHARED) $(GCC.LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $1 $^ $(GCC.LDFLAGS.LIBS) $(LDFLAGS.LIBS) $2
- 	ln -fs $(notdir $@.$(SHARED.$3)) $@.$(basename $(basename $(SHARED.$3)))
-Only in lensfun-0.2.3/out/posix/release: deps
diff --git a/extra/lensfun/lensfun-0.2.3-glibc-2.10.patch b/extra/lensfun/lensfun-0.2.3-glibc-2.10.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 41a29563a..000000000
--- a/extra/lensfun/lensfun-0.2.3-glibc-2.10.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- lensfun-0.2.3.orig/tools/makedep/cppsetup.cpp	2009-07-04 21:20:49.000000000 +0200
-+++ lensfun-0.2.3/tools/makedep/cppsetup.cpp	2009-07-04 22:19:18.000000000 +0200
-@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
-     }
-     while (s);
- 
--    eol = strchr (var, 0);
-+    eol = (char *)strchr (var, 0);
- 
-     // Skip parentheses which Microsoft likes so much
-     if (*var == '(')
diff --git a/extra/lensfun/lensfun-0.2.8-make-4.0.patch b/extra/lensfun/lensfun-0.2.8-make-4.0.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c7694457d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/lensfun/lensfun-0.2.8-make-4.0.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- configure.old	2013-12-06 16:55:09.098654166 +0100
++++ configure	2013-12-06 16:55:20.298676545 +0100
+@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
+     }
+ 
+ # Check for tools
+-tibs.check_program ("GNU Make", "make --version", ".*?([0-9\.]+).*", "3.81", True)
++tibs.check_program ("GNU Make", "make --version", ".*?([0-9\.]+).*", "4.0", True)
+ if tibs.check_program ("makedep", "makedep -V", ".*Version.*?([0-9\.]+).*", "0.1.0"):
+     tibs.add_config_mak ("MAKEDEP", "makedep")
+     makedep = "yes"