diff --git a/dev-libs/xerces_c/xerces_c-3.1.3.recipe b/dev-libs/xerces_c/xerces_c-3.1.4.recipe
similarity index 82%
rename from dev-libs/xerces_c/xerces_c-3.1.3.recipe
rename to dev-libs/xerces_c/xerces_c-3.1.4.recipe
index 388e2c6ca..0879bd4e1 100644
--- a/dev-libs/xerces_c/xerces_c-3.1.3.recipe
+++ b/dev-libs/xerces_c/xerces_c-3.1.4.recipe
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, \
 generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents using the DOM, SAX, \
 and SAX2 APIs."
 HOMEPAGE="https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/"
-COPYRIGHT="1999-2015 The Apache Software Foundation"
+COPYRIGHT="1999-2016 The Apache Software Foundation"
 LICENSE="Apache v2"
 REVISION="1"
-SOURCE_URI="http://apache.mirrors.tds.net//xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-$portVersion.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="f3d4f73db7c981e16db2b16d9424b0c75d9fbd30ad81747cac047bc6170b5b49"
+SOURCE_URI="http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="9408f12c1628ecf80730bedbe8b2caad810edd01bb4c66f77b60c873e8cc6891"
 SOURCE_DIR="xerces-c-$portVersion"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="!x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
@@ -54,9 +54,10 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 	cmd:aclocal
 	cmd:autoconf
 	cmd:automake
-	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:autoreconf
+	cmd:g++$secondaryArchSuffix
 	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
-	cmd:libtoolize
+	cmd:libtoolize$secondaryArchSuffix
 	cmd:make
 	"
 
@@ -73,6 +74,8 @@ INSTALL()
 
 	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libxerces-c
 	fixPkgconfig
+	ln -s --relative $libDir/libxerces-c-3.1.so $developLibDir
+	rm $developLibDir/libxerces-c.la
 
 	# devel package
 	packageEntries devel \