diff --git a/xchat/.md5sum b/xchat/.md5sum
index 21358df2b..0825ea4f1 100644
--- a/xchat/.md5sum
+++ b/xchat/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 eb68b6261bf6740cb5f223627eb8f384  xc286-smallfixes.diff
 1f2670865d43a23a9abc596dde999aca  xchat-2.8.6.tar.bz2
+f3fe00982c0bec93152ed0b32438ef87  xchat-gtk2.patch
diff --git a/xchat/Pkgfile b/xchat/Pkgfile
index ee171fad3..20141fb6e 100644
--- a/xchat/Pkgfile
+++ b/xchat/Pkgfile
@@ -5,13 +5,15 @@
 
 name=xchat
 version=2.8.6
-release=1
+release=2
 source=(http://www.xchat.org/files/source/2.8/$name-$version.tar.bz2 \
-	http://www.xchat.org/files/source/2.8/patches/xc286-smallfixes.diff)
+	http://www.xchat.org/files/source/2.8/patches/xc286-smallfixes.diff \
+	$name-gtk2.patch)
 
 build() {
 	cd $name-$version
 	patch -p1 -i $SRC/xc286-smallfixes.diff
+	patch -p1 -i $SRC/$name-gtk2.patch
 	./configure --prefix=/usr \
 		--enable-openssl \
 		--enable-perl \
diff --git a/xchat/xchat-gtk2.patch b/xchat/xchat-gtk2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4e13a2cf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xchat/xchat-gtk2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- xchat-2.8.6/src/fe-gtk/xtext.h.orig 2008-02-24 
+05:48:02.000000000 +0100
++++ xchat-2.8.6/src/fe-gtk/xtext.h 2008-09-06 
+02:18:39.000000000 +0200
+@@ -270,6 +270,6 @@
+ xtext_buffer *gtk_xtext_buffer_new (GtkXText *xtext);
+ void gtk_xtext_buffer_free (xtext_buffer *buf);
+ void gtk_xtext_buffer_show (GtkXText *xtext, xtext_buffer *buf, int render);
+-GtkType gtk_xtext_get_type (void);
++GType gtk_xtext_get_type (void);
+
+ #endif