diff --git a/srcpkgs/libtool/template b/srcpkgs/libtool/template
index 4d7687ab7a7..6b7b115f5b1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libtool/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libtool/template
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-# Template build file for 'libtool'
+# Template file for 'libtool'
 pkgname=libtool
 version=2.4.6
-revision=2
+revision=3
+build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="perl automake help2man"
 depends="tar sed"
-build_style=gnu-configure
-homepage="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool"
-distfiles="${GNU_SITE}/libtool/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
 short_desc="Generic library support script"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool"
+distfiles="${GNU_SITE}/libtool/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
 checksum=7c87a8c2c8c0fc9cd5019e402bed4292462d00a718a7cd5f11218153bf28b26f
 
 pre_configure() {
@@ -17,6 +17,41 @@ pre_configure() {
 	./bootstrap --force
 }
 
+post_install() {
+	local _canonical_host _host_os
+
+	# this is necessary, because when cross building, libtool will pick up
+	# the binary names of the crosstoolchain, which are prefixed with the
+	# short triplet (i.e. arch-linux-env instead of arch-unknown-linux-env)
+	# and those are not present in a real native environment; also the
+	# sysroot var will be set and cflags will include extra cross-related
+	# things that need to go; the target libtool script is meant to be used
+	# in native environments, not in cross environments, so patch the script
+	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+		# e.g. AR="armv7l-linux-gnueabihf-ar" becomes AR="ar"
+		vsed -i -e "s,=\"${XBPS_CROSS_TRIPLET}\-,=\",g" \
+		 ${PKGDESTDIR}/usr/bin/libtool
+
+		# clear out any sysroot present
+		vsed -i -e "s,^lt_sysroot=.*,lt_sysroot=," \
+		 ${PKGDESTDIR}/usr/bin/libtool
+
+		# clear out sysroot include path
+		vsed -i -e "s,\-I${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include,,g" \
+		 ${PKGDESTDIR}/usr/bin/libtool
+
+		# canonicalize host_alias, replace build(_alias,_os)
+		_canonical_host=$(grep "^host=" ${PKGDESTDIR}/usr/bin/libtool | sed 's/host=//')
+		_host_os=$(grep "^host_os=" ${PKGDESTDIR}/usr/bin/libtool | sed 's/host_os=//')
+		vsed -i \
+		 -e "s,^host_alias=.*,host_alias=${_canonical_host}," \
+		 -e "s,^host=.*,host=${_canonical_host}," \
+		 -e "s,^build_alias=.*,build_alias=${_canonical_host}," \
+		 -e "s,^build=.*,build=${_canonical_host}," \
+		 -e "s,^build_os=.*,build_os=${_host_os}," \
+		 ${PKGDESTDIR}/usr/bin/libtool
+	fi
+}
 
 libltdl-devel_package() {
 	depends="libltdl-${version}_${revision}"