diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0ac406a..3b360a5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 c-ares-1.7.3.tar.gz
 /c-ares-1.7.4.tar.gz
 /c-ares-1.7.5.tar.gz
+/c-ares-1.8.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/c-ares-1.8.0-multilib.patch b/c-ares-1.8.0-multilib.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64e8a48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/c-ares-1.8.0-multilib.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+--- ares_build.h.in
++++ ares_build.h.in
+@@ -96,7 +96,14 @@
+ #endif
+ 
+ /* The size of `long', as computed by sizeof. */
+-#undef CARES_SIZEOF_LONG
++#include <bits/wordsize.h>
++#if __WORDSIZE == 32
++#define CARES_SIZEOF_LONG 4
++#elif __WORDSIZE == 64
++#define CARES_SIZEOF_LONG 8
++#else
++#error "Unknown word size"
++#endif
+ 
+ /* Integral data type used for ares_socklen_t. */
+ #undef CARES_TYPEOF_ARES_SOCKLEN_T
+--- configure.ac
++++ configure.ac
+@@ -468,7 +468,6 @@ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(size_t)
+ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(long)
+ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(int)
+ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(short)
+-CARES_CONFIGURE_LONG
+ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(time_t)
+ 
+ AC_CHECK_TYPE(long long,
+--- configure
++++ configure
+@@ -18096,17 +18096,6 @@
+ _ACEOF
+ 
+ 
+-
+-  if test -z "$ac_cv_sizeof_long" ||
+-    test "$ac_cv_sizeof_long" -eq "0"; then
+-    as_fn_error "cannot find out size of long." "$LINENO" 5
+-  fi
+-
+-cat >>confdefs.h <<_EOF
+-#define CARES_SIZEOF_LONG $ac_cv_sizeof_long
+-_EOF
+-
+-
+ # The cast to long int works around a bug in the HP C Compiler
+ # version HP92453-01 B.11.11.23709.GP, which incorrectly rejects
+ # declarations like `int a3[[(sizeof (unsigned char)) >= 0]];'.
diff --git a/c-ares.spec b/c-ares.spec
index cc5368b..006ef11 100644
--- a/c-ares.spec
+++ b/c-ares.spec
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 Summary: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations
 Name: c-ares
-Version: 1.7.5
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 1.8.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: MIT
 Group: System Environment/Libraries
 URL: http://c-ares.haxx.se/
 Source0: http://c-ares.haxx.se/download/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1: LICENSE
 Patch0: %{name}-1.7.5-optflags.patch
-Patch1: c-ares-multilib.patch
+Patch1: c-ares-1.8.0-multilib.patch
 
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ compile applications or shared objects that use c-ares.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1 -b .optflags
-%patch1 -p1 -b .multilib
+%patch1 -p0 -b .multilib
 cp %{SOURCE1} .
 f=CHANGES ; iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 $f -o $f.utf8 ; mv $f.utf8 $f
 
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_mandir}/man3/ares_*
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Apr 28 2012 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.0-1
+- update to 1.8.0
+- fix multilib patch (thanks to Paul Howarth)
+
 * Thu Jan 12 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.5-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index f00b323..ead44d6 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-dd71e8f07d9f3c837e12a5416d1b7f73  c-ares-1.7.4.tar.gz
-800875fc23cd8e1924d8af9172ed33e7  c-ares-1.7.5.tar.gz
+2936494add5663ecc57147cc3c9697f9  c-ares-1.8.0.tar.gz