diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsdl-ttf/files/configure.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsdl-ttf/files/configure.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index de88f0a34a..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsdl-ttf/files/configure.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-Index: SDL_ttf-2.0.10/configure.in
-===================================================================
---- SDL_ttf-2.0.10.orig/configure.in	2009-10-12 23:06:38.000000000 +0000
-+++ SDL_ttf-2.0.10/configure.in	2014-07-17 12:33:34.011662505 +0000
-@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
- dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
--AC_INIT(README)
- 
- dnl Set various version strings - taken gratefully from the GTk sources
- 
-@@ -11,12 +10,19 @@
- # if backwards compatibility has been broken,
- # set BINARY_AGE and INTERFACE_AGE to 0.
- 
--MAJOR_VERSION=2
--MINOR_VERSION=0
--MICRO_VERSION=10
-+m4_define([sdlttf_major_version],[2])
-+m4_define([sdlttf_minor_version],[0])
-+m4_define([sdlttf_micro_version],[10])
-+m4_define([sdlttf_version], [sdlttf_major_version.sdlttf_minor_version.sdlttf_micro_version])
-+
-+AC_INIT([SDL_ttf], [sdlttf_version])
-+
-+MAJOR_VERSION=sdlttf_major_version
-+MINOR_VERSION=sdlttf_minor_version
-+MICRO_VERSION=sdlttf_micro_version
- INTERFACE_AGE=0
- BINARY_AGE=10
--VERSION=$MAJOR_VERSION.$MINOR_VERSION.$MICRO_VERSION
-+VERSION=sdlttf_version
- 
- AC_SUBST(MAJOR_VERSION)
- AC_SUBST(MINOR_VERSION)
-@@ -25,6 +31,8 @@
- AC_SUBST(BINARY_AGE)
- AC_SUBST(VERSION)
- 
-+AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([acinclude])
-+
- # libtool versioning
- LT_INIT([win32-dll])
- 
-@@ -42,7 +50,7 @@
- AC_CANONICAL_HOST
- 
- dnl Setup for automake
--AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(SDL_ttf, $VERSION)
-+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
- 
- dnl Check for tools
- AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsdl-ttf/libsdl-ttf_2.0.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsdl-ttf/libsdl-ttf_2.0.11.bb
similarity index 55%
rename from meta-oe/recipes-support/libsdl-ttf/libsdl-ttf_2.0.10.bb
rename to meta-oe/recipes-support/libsdl-ttf/libsdl-ttf_2.0.11.bb
index ad3792e22e..0249abe24a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsdl-ttf/libsdl-ttf_2.0.10.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsdl-ttf/libsdl-ttf_2.0.11.bb
@@ -1,33 +1,27 @@
 SUMMARY = "Simple DirectMedia Layer truetype font library"
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/libsdl freetype"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=27818cd7fd83877a8e3ef82b82798ef4"
-
-PR = "r2"
+LICENSE = "Zlib"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=22800d1b3701377aae0b61ee36f5c303"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/release/SDL_ttf-${PV}.tar.gz \
-           file://configure.patch \
            file://use.pkg-config.for.freetype2.patch \
 "
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "61e29bd9da8d245bc2471d1b2ce591aa"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "724cd895ecf4da319a3ef164892b72078bd92632a5d812111261cde248ebcdb7"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/SDL_ttf-${PV}"
-EXTRA_OECONF += "SDL_CONFIG=${STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS}/sdl-config "
 
 inherit autotools
 
-TARGET_CC_ARCH += "${LDFLAGS}"
-
 do_configure_prepend() {
+    # make autoreconf happy
+    touch ${S}/NEWS ${S}/AUTHORS ${S}/ChangeLog
 
     # Removing these files fixes a libtool version mismatch.
     MACROS="libtool.m4 lt~obsolete.m4 ltoptions.m4 ltsugar.m4 ltversion.m4"
 
     for i in ${MACROS}; do
-      rm -f ${S}/acinclude/$i
+        rm -f ${S}/acinclude/$i
     done
-
 }
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "814e6e17e8879254208d23b3b7e0354b"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7d38704bcc7c34029c2dcb73b2d4857e8ad76341c6e0faed279eb9f743c66c6a"