diff --git a/srcpkgs/ghc-bin/template b/srcpkgs/ghc-bin/template
index 6faf8046d33..2156989c465 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/ghc-bin/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/ghc-bin/template
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Template file for 'ghc-bin'
 pkgname=ghc-bin
-version=7.8.2
-revision=2
-depends="perl gcc"
+version=7.8.3
+revision=1
+depends="perl gcc libffi-devel gmp-devel"
 short_desc="Glorious Haskell Compiler - precompiled binaries"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="custom"
@@ -12,16 +12,15 @@ case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
     x86_64*)
 	distfiles="http://code.haskell.org/~slyfox/ghc-amd64/$pkgname-$version-amd64.tbz2"
 	skip_extraction="$pkgname-$version-amd64.tbz2"
-	checksum=7e84c220275afff6b1c16f1e76453728c64e30d88b77fb41897c975ede7825ab
+	checksum=af49f547336a4f9f13cd625155d5a6a998e52ae7da8bbbddc856f88b00b6aff4
 	;;
     i686*)
 	distfiles="http://code.haskell.org/~slyfox/ghc-x86/$pkgname-$version-x86.tbz2"
         skip_extraction="$pkgname-$version-x86.tbz2"
-        checksum=a19795b1bb5c91d6ccebbdf12f1eaa7647c24db16c4551340a5271072a51f683
+        checksum=c67f0d2471e594b4fdfc5b219bb6b61e57e6ba75132aa3f63d171550af8cbe3c
 	;;
 esac
 create_wrksrc=yes
-nostrip=1
 provides="ghc-${version}_${revision}"
 replaces="ghc>=0"