diff --git a/srcpkgs/chroot-gawk/patches/fix-str2wstr.patch b/srcpkgs/chroot-gawk/patches/fix-str2wstr.patch
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..0bc63ae1681
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/chroot-gawk/patches/fix-str2wstr.patch
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../gawk/patches/fix-str2wstr.patch
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/chroot-gawk/template b/srcpkgs/chroot-gawk/template
index 1217a9d982f..ae98ea58403 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/chroot-gawk/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/chroot-gawk/template
@@ -1,21 +1,40 @@
 # Template file for 'chroot-gawk'
 pkgname=chroot-gawk
-version=5.0.1
+version=5.3.0
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
-configure_args="--disable-nls --without-readline ac_cv_libsigsegv=/bin/false"
+configure_args="--disable-nls --without-readline ac_cv_libsigsegv=/bin/false
+ --disable-pma"
+hostmakedepends="automake" # Needed to run because of sed
 short_desc="GNU awk utility -- for xbps-src use"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gawk"
+changelog="https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/plain/NEWS"
 distfiles="${GNU_SITE}/gawk/gawk-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=8e4e86f04ed789648b66f757329743a0d6dfb5294c3b91b756a474f1ce05a794
+checksum=ca9c16d3d11d0ff8c69d79dc0b47267e1329a69b39b799895604ed447d3ca90b
 repository=bootstrap
 
 bootstrap=yes
 provides="awk-0_1"
 replaces="awk>=0"
 
+pre_check() {
+	vsed -i 's/done | more/done/g' test/Makefile
+
+	# This fixes tests on glibc, relevant tests on musl are disabled
+	# because the locale command doesn't exist.
+	vsed -i 's/en_US.ISO-8859-1//' test/localenl.sh
+	vsed -i '/^LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 passed$/d' test/localenl.ok
+
+	case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
+		*-musl)
+			vsed -i 's/No child processes/No child process/' test/testext.ok
+			vsed -i '/testext/d' test/Makefile
+			vsed -i '/clos1way6/d' test/Makefile ;;
+	esac
+}
+
 post_install() {
 	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/usr/share ${DESTDIR}/etc/profile.d ${DESTDIR}/usr/include
 }