diff --git a/lang/php5/Makefile b/lang/php5/Makefile
index 8cbdd08ef..ccb55f4a5 100644
--- a/lang/php5/Makefile
+++ b/lang/php5/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=php
-PKG_VERSION:=5.4.38
+PKG_VERSION:=5.6.6
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org>
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=LICENSE
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.php.net/distributions/
-PKG_MD5SUM:=2bf5007ba4bd012f9895c1b441dd4f50
+PKG_MD5SUM:=b198117ee1d44c8143e030cee15f1b52
 
-PKG_FIXUP:=libtool no-autoreconf
+PKG_FIXUP:=libtool autoreconf
 PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=1
 PKG_USE_MIPS16:=0
 
diff --git a/lang/php5/patches/950-Fix-dl-cross-compiling-issue.patch b/lang/php5/patches/950-Fix-dl-cross-compiling-issue.patch
index 216a5180a..02b1f644c 100644
--- a/lang/php5/patches/950-Fix-dl-cross-compiling-issue.patch
+++ b/lang/php5/patches/950-Fix-dl-cross-compiling-issue.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
---- a/configure.in
-+++ b/configure.in
-@@ -453,7 +453,10 @@ PHP_CHECK_FUNC(gethostname, nsl)
+diff -u --recursive php-5.6.6-vanilla/configure.in php-5.6.6/configure.in
+--- php-5.6.6-vanilla/configure.in	2015-02-26 22:10:51.865487530 -0500
++++ php-5.6.6/configure.in	2015-02-26 22:29:59.043102135 -0500
+@@ -453,7 +453,10 @@
  PHP_CHECK_FUNC(gethostbyaddr, nsl)
  PHP_CHECK_FUNC(yp_get_default_domain, nsl)
  
@@ -12,3 +13,50 @@
  if test "$ac_cv_func_dlopen" = "yes"; then
    AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBDL, 1, [ ])
  fi
+diff -u --recursive php-5.6.6-vanilla/ext/fileinfo/config.m4 php-5.6.6/ext/fileinfo/config.m4
+--- php-5.6.6-vanilla/ext/fileinfo/config.m4	2015-02-26 22:10:51.639487135 -0500
++++ php-5.6.6/ext/fileinfo/config.m4	2015-02-26 22:22:47.645609128 -0500
+@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
+     AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+     AC_MSG_NOTICE(using libmagic strcasestr implementation)
+     libmagic_sources="$libmagic_sources libmagic/strcasestr.c"
++  ],[
++    dnl cross-compiling; assume not present
++    AC_MSG_NOTICE(using libmagic strcasestr implementation)
++    libmagic_sources="$libmagic_sources libmagic/strcasestr.c"
+   ])
+ 
+   PHP_NEW_EXTENSION(fileinfo, fileinfo.c $libmagic_sources, $ext_shared,,-I@ext_srcdir@/libmagic)
+diff -u --recursive php-5.6.6-vanilla/ext/opcache/config.m4 php-5.6.6/ext/opcache/config.m4
+--- php-5.6.6-vanilla/ext/opcache/config.m4	2015-02-26 22:10:51.790487399 -0500
++++ php-5.6.6/ext/opcache/config.m4	2015-02-26 22:34:19.240414394 -0500
+@@ -341,7 +341,14 @@
+ 	flock_type=linux
+     AC_DEFINE([HAVE_FLOCK_LINUX], [], [Struct flock is Linux-type])
+     AC_MSG_RESULT("yes")
+-], AC_MSG_RESULT("no") )
++], [
++    AC_MSG_RESULT("no")
++], [
++    dnl cross-compiling; assume Linux
++	flock_type=linux
++    AC_DEFINE([HAVE_FLOCK_LINUX], [], [Struct flock is Linux-type])
++    AC_MSG_RESULT("yes")
++])
+ 
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING("whether flock struct is BSD ordered")
+ AC_TRY_RUN([
+@@ -357,7 +364,12 @@
+ 	flock_type=bsd
+     AC_DEFINE([HAVE_FLOCK_BSD], [], [Struct flock is BSD-type]) 
+     AC_MSG_RESULT("yes")
+-], AC_MSG_RESULT("no") )
++], [
++    AC_MSG_RESULT("no")
++], [
++    dnl cross-compiling; assume Linux
++    AC_MSG_RESULT("no")
++])
+ 
+ if test "$flock_type" == "unknown"; then
+ 	AC_MSG_ERROR([Don't know how to define struct flock on this system[,] set --enable-opcache=no])