diff --git a/src/openblas-1-fixes.patch b/src/openblas-1-fixes.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ca0ee2c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/openblas-1-fixes.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+This file is part of MXE. See LICENSE.md for licensing information.
+
+Contains ad hoc patches for cross building.
+
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com>
+Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:20:03 +1100
+Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ARCH from openblas build conflicts with lapack
+
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index 1111111..2222222 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ ifndef NOFORTRAN
+ 	-@echo "LOADOPTS    = $(FFLAGS) $(EXTRALIB)" >> $(NETLIB_LAPACK_DIR)/make.inc
+ 	-@echo "CC          = $(CC)" >> $(NETLIB_LAPACK_DIR)/make.inc
+ 	-@echo "override CFLAGS      = $(LAPACK_CFLAGS)" >> $(NETLIB_LAPACK_DIR)/make.inc
+-	-@echo "ARCH        = $(AR)" >> $(NETLIB_LAPACK_DIR)/make.inc
++	-@echo "override ARCH        = $(AR)" >> $(NETLIB_LAPACK_DIR)/make.inc
+ 	-@echo "ARCHFLAGS   = -ru" >> $(NETLIB_LAPACK_DIR)/make.inc
+ 	-@echo "RANLIB      = $(RANLIB)" >> $(NETLIB_LAPACK_DIR)/make.inc
+ 	-@echo "LAPACKLIB   = ../$(LIBNAME)" >> $(NETLIB_LAPACK_DIR)/make.inc
diff --git a/src/openblas-test.c b/src/openblas-test.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1568224c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/openblas-test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of MXE.
+ * See index.html for further information.
+ *
+ * taken from: https://gist.github.com/xianyi/5780018
+ */
+
+#include "stdio.h"
+#include "stdlib.h"
+#include "sys/time.h"
+#include "time.h"
+
+extern void dgemm_(char*, char*, int*, int*,int*, double*, double*, int*, double*, int*, double*, double*, int*);
+
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+  int i;
+  printf("test!\n");
+  if(argc<4){
+    printf("Input Error\n");
+    return 1;
+  }
+
+  int m = atoi(argv[1]);
+  int n = atoi(argv[2]);
+  int k = atoi(argv[3]);
+  int sizeofa = m * k;
+  int sizeofb = k * n;
+  int sizeofc = m * n;
+  char ta = 'N';
+  char tb = 'N';
+  double alpha = 1.2;
+  double beta = 0.001;
+
+  struct timeval start,finish;
+  double duration;
+
+  double* A = (double*)malloc(sizeof(double) * sizeofa);
+  double* B = (double*)malloc(sizeof(double) * sizeofb);
+  double* C = (double*)malloc(sizeof(double) * sizeofc);
+
+  srand((unsigned)time(NULL));
+
+  for (i=0; i<sizeofa; i++)
+    A[i] = i%3+1;//(rand()%100)/10.0;
+
+  for (i=0; i<sizeofb; i++)
+    B[i] = i%3+1;//(rand()%100)/10.0;
+
+  for (i=0; i<sizeofc; i++)
+    C[i] = i%3+1;//(rand()%100)/10.0;
+  //#if 0
+  printf("m=%d,n=%d,k=%d,alpha=%lf,beta=%lf,sizeofc=%d\n",m,n,k,alpha,beta,sizeofc);
+  gettimeofday(&start, NULL);
+  dgemm_(&ta, &tb, &m, &n, &k, &alpha, A, &m, B, &k, &beta, C, &m);
+  gettimeofday(&finish, NULL);
+
+  duration = ((double)(finish.tv_sec-start.tv_sec)*1000000 + (double)(finish.tv_usec-start.tv_usec)) / 1000000;
+  double gflops = 2.0 * m *n*k;
+  gflops = gflops/duration*1.0e-6;
+
+  FILE *fp;
+  fp = fopen("timeDGEMM.txt", "a");
+  fprintf(fp, "%dx%dx%d\t%lf s\t%lf MFLOPS\n", m, n, k, duration, gflops);
+  fclose(fp);
+
+  free(A);
+  free(B);
+  free(C);
+  return 0;
+}
diff --git a/src/openblas.mk b/src/openblas.mk
index 498c6a4c..ca5626c2 100644
--- a/src/openblas.mk
+++ b/src/openblas.mk
@@ -4,20 +4,13 @@ PKG             := openblas
 $(PKG)_WEBSITE  := http://www.openblas.net/
 $(PKG)_DESCR    := OpenBLAS
 $(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
-$(PKG)_VERSION  := 0.2.15
-$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 73c40ace5978282224e5e122a41c8388c5a19e65a6f2329c2b7c0b61bacc9044
-$(PKG)_SUBDIR   := OpenBLAS-$($(PKG)_VERSION)
-$(PKG)_FILE     := $($(PKG)_SUBDIR).tar.gz
-$(PKG)_URL      := https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/archive/v$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.gz
+$(PKG)_VERSION  := 0.2.20
+$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 5ef38b15d9c652985774869efd548b8e3e972e1e99475c673b25537ed7bcf394
+$(PKG)_GH_CONF  := xianyi/OpenBLAS/tags, v
 $(PKG)_DEPS     := gcc pthreads
 
-define $(PKG)_UPDATE
-    $(WGET) -q -O- 'https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/releases' | \
-    $(SED) -n 's,.*OpenBLAS/archive/v\([0-9][^"]*\)\.tar\.gz.*,\1,p' | \
-    grep -v 'rc' | \
-    $(SORT) -V | \
-    tail -1
-endef
+# openblas has it's own optimised versions of netlib lapack that
+# it bundles into -lopenblas so won't conflict with those libs
 
 $(PKG)_MAKE_OPTS = \
         PREFIX='$(PREFIX)/$(TARGET)' \
@@ -25,9 +18,9 @@ $(PKG)_MAKE_OPTS = \
         FC='$(TARGET)-gfortran' \
         CC='$(TARGET)-gcc' \
         HOSTCC='$(BUILD_CC)' \
+        MAKE_NB_JOBS=-1 \
         CROSS=1 \
-        NO_CBLAS=1 \
-        NO_LAPACK=1 \
+        BUILD_RELAPACK=1 \
         USE_THREAD=1 \
         USE_OPENMP=1 \
         TARGET=CORE2 \
@@ -38,9 +31,14 @@ $(PKG)_MAKE_OPTS = \
         BINARY=$(BITS) \
         $(if $(BUILD_STATIC),NO_SHARED=1) \
         $(if $(BUILD_SHARED),NO_STATIC=1) \
-        EXTRALIB="`'$(TARGET)-pkg-config' --libs pthreads` -fopenmp"
+        EXTRALIB="`'$(TARGET)-pkg-config' --libs pthreads` -fopenmp -lgfortran -lquadmath"
 
 define $(PKG)_BUILD
-    $(MAKE) -C '$(1)' -j '$(JOBS)' $($(PKG)_MAKE_OPTS)
-    $(MAKE) -C '$(1)' -j 1 install $($(PKG)_MAKE_OPTS)
+    $(MAKE) -C '$(SOURCE_DIR)' -j '$(JOBS)' $($(PKG)_MAKE_OPTS)
+    $(MAKE) -C '$(SOURCE_DIR)' -j 1 install $($(PKG)_MAKE_OPTS)
+
+    '$(TARGET)-gcc' \
+        -W -Wall -Werror \
+        '$(TEST_FILE)' -o '$(PREFIX)/$(TARGET)/bin/test-$(PKG).exe' \
+        `'$(TARGET)-pkg-config' --cflags --libs $(PKG)`
 endef