diff --git a/lfs/pmacct b/lfs/pmacct
index 0f8834b51..7c8b32772 100644
--- a/lfs/pmacct
+++ b/lfs/pmacct
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ include Config
 
 SUMMARY    = Accounting and aggregation toolsuite for IPv4 and IPv6
 
-VER        = 1.7.6
+VER        = 1.7.8
 
 THISAPP    = pmacct-$(VER)
 DL_FILE    = $(THISAPP).tar.gz
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ DL_FROM    = $(URL_IPFIRE)
 DIR_APP    = $(DIR_SRC)/$(THISAPP)
 TARGET     = $(DIR_INFO)/$(THISAPP)
 PROG       = pmacct
-PAK_VER    = 4
+PAK_VER    = 5
 
 
 DEPS       = libcdada
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
 
 $(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
 
-$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = df04822e88f9409d335457031fb26ce4ae8b5da13cf2f55f8d6c78eb50dade62ef763d389ac81a509d9351e12844446ac73171e9966a5aeeecc0e5fb10219c73
+$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 1b95d48c479d59f2d4a7654e870e6f61c984c57c31aebbfb9fbf86f2d1027cde6a0f334489f33186bbb19ee7bdf94726f0053faa4829273de2d1975f58dff97f
 
 install : $(TARGET)
 
@@ -82,9 +82,6 @@ $(subst %,%_BLAKE2,$(objects)) :
 $(TARGET) : $(patsubst %,$(DIR_DL)/%,$(objects))
 	@$(PREBUILD)
 	@rm -rf $(DIR_APP) && cd $(DIR_SRC) && tar zxf $(DIR_DL)/$(DL_FILE)
-	cd $(DIR_APP) && rm configure
-	cd $(DIR_APP) && patch -Np1 -i $(DIR_SRC)/src/patches/pmacct-1.7.6-Werror.patch
-	cd $(DIR_APP) && ./autogen.sh
 	cd $(DIR_APP) && ./configure 		    \
 		        --prefix=/usr 			    \
 		        --sysconfdir=/etc/pmacct 	\
diff --git a/src/patches/pmacct-1.7.6-Werror.patch b/src/patches/pmacct-1.7.6-Werror.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 57bb7d1ff..000000000
--- a/src/patches/pmacct-1.7.6-Werror.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
---- pmacct-1.7.6/configure.ac.orig	2021-02-05 02:07:36.000000000 +0100
-+++ pmacct-1.7.6/configure.ac	2021-07-15 19:58:37.247916727 +0200
-@@ -1153,9 +1153,9 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug,
- 			AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
- 			tmp_CFLAGS=`echo $CFLAGS | sed 's/O2/O0/g'`
- 			CFLAGS="$tmp_CFLAGS"
--			CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -g -Wall -Werror"
-+			CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -g -Wall"
- 		else
--			CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall -Werror"
-+			CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall"
- 			AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
- 		fi
- 	],
-
-
---- pmacct-1.7.6/src/external_libs/libcdada/configure.ac.orig	2021-02-07 16:29:15.000000000 +0100
-+++ pmacct-1.7.6/src/external_libs/libcdada/configure.ac	2021-07-16 09:04:30.858749121 +0200
-@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ AC_INIT(LIBCDADA, m4_esyscmd_s(cat VERSI
- AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
- AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
- 
--AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign subdir-objects])
-+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall foreign subdir-objects])
- 
- AC_GNU_SOURCE
- 
-@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ LT_INIT
- AC_ENABLE_STATIC
- 
- # Some useful default flags
--CFLAGS="-std=gnu89 -Werror -Wall $CFLAGS"
--CXXFLAGS="-Werror -Wall $CXXFLAGS"
-+CFLAGS="-std=gnu89 -Wall $CFLAGS"
-+CXXFLAGS="-Wall $CXXFLAGS"
- AC_DEFINE([__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS], [], [Description])
- 
- # Check for Python3