diff --git a/package/armadillo/Config.in b/package/armadillo/Config.in
index 7aed4fd02fe9..7a93343d41f8 100644
--- a/package/armadillo/Config.in
+++ b/package/armadillo/Config.in
@@ -2,16 +2,18 @@ comment "armadillo needs a toolchain w/ C++"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_OPENBLAS_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 
-comment "armadillo needs a toolchain w/ fortran, C++"
+comment "armadillo needs a toolchain w/ fortran, C++, gcc >= 4.9"
 	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_OPENBLAS_ARCH_SUPPORTS # otherwise, see comment above
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LAPACK_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_FORTRAN || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
+	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9
 
 config BR2_PACKAGE_ARMADILLO
 	bool "armadillo"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_OPENBLAS_ARCH_SUPPORTS || \
 		(BR2_PACKAGE_LAPACK_ARCH_SUPPORTS && BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_FORTRAN)
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # C++14
 	help
 	  Armadillo: An Open Source C++ Linear Algebra Library for
 	  Fast Prototyping and Computationally Intensive Experiments.
diff --git a/package/armadillo/armadillo.hash b/package/armadillo/armadillo.hash
index 9b19b8c8c4a2..4e8652192303 100644
--- a/package/armadillo/armadillo.hash
+++ b/package/armadillo/armadillo.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  d78658c9442addf7f718eb05881150ee3ec25604d06dd3af4942422b3ce26d05  armadillo-9.900.2.tar.xz.RETIRED
+sha256  248e2535fc092add6cb7dea94fc86ae1c463bda39e46fd82d2a7165c1c197dff  armadillo-14.0.2.tar.xz
 # License files, locally calculated
 sha256  3ddf9be5c28fe27dad143a5dc76eea25222ad1dd68934a047064e56ed2fa40c5  LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/package/armadillo/armadillo.mk b/package/armadillo/armadillo.mk
index 81684a44f72f..608f8fb229f2 100644
--- a/package/armadillo/armadillo.mk
+++ b/package/armadillo/armadillo.mk
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ARMADILLO_VERSION = 9.900.2
-ARMADILLO_SOURCE = armadillo-$(ARMADILLO_VERSION).tar.xz.RETIRED
-ARMADILLO_SITE = https://sourceforge.net/projects/arma/files/retired
+ARMADILLO_VERSION = 14.0.2
+ARMADILLO_SOURCE = armadillo-$(ARMADILLO_VERSION).tar.xz
+ARMADILLO_SITE = https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/arma
 ARMADILLO_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 ARMADILLO_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
 ARMADILLO_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.txt
 
-ARMADILLO_CONF_OPTS = -DDETECT_HDF5=false
+ARMADILLO_CONF_OPTS = -DDETECT_HDF5=false -DBUILD_SMOKE_TEST=false
 
 # blas support may be provided by lapack (libblas.a) or openblas (libopenblas.a)
 ARMADILLO_CONF_OPTS += -DBLAS_FOUND=ON
@@ -30,8 +30,4 @@ ARMADILLO_CONF_OPTS += -DLAPACK_FOUND=ON
 ARMADILLO_DEPENDENCIES += lapack
 endif
 
-define ARMADILLO_EXTRACT_CMDS
-	$(TAR) --strip-components=1 -C $(@D) $(TAR_OPTIONS) $($(PKG)_DL_DIR)/$(ARMADILLO_SOURCE)
-endef
-
 $(eval $(cmake-package))