diff --git a/packages/openal-soft/alc-alconfig.cpp.patch b/packages/openal-soft/alc-alconfig.cpp.patch
index 14562b57916a98..db8d935a1e2019 100644
--- a/packages/openal-soft/alc-alconfig.cpp.patch
+++ b/packages/openal-soft/alc-alconfig.cpp.patch
@@ -1,18 +1,15 @@
-diff -u -r ../openal-soft-openal-soft-1.20.0/alc/alconfig.cpp ./alc/alconfig.cpp
---- ../openal-soft-openal-soft-1.20.0/alc/alconfig.cpp	2019-11-28 08:45:08.000000000 +0000
-+++ ./alc/alconfig.cpp	2019-12-01 17:05:51.388007000 +0000
-@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
- 
+--- a/alc/alconfig.cpp
++++ b/alc/alconfig.cpp
+@@ -383,13 +383,13 @@
  void ReadALConfig()
  {
--    const char *str{"/etc/openal/alsoft.conf"};
-+    const char *str{"@TERMUX_PREFIX@/etc/openal/alsoft.conf"};
+     namespace fs = std::filesystem;
+-    fs::path path{"/etc/openal/alsoft.conf"};
++    fs::path path{"@TERMUX_PREFIX@/etc/openal/alsoft.conf"};
  
-     TRACE("Loading config %s...\n", str);
-     al::ifstream f{str};
-@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
+     TRACE("Loading config %s...\n", path.u8string().c_str());
+     if(std::ifstream f{path}; f.is_open())
          LoadConfigFromFile(f);
-     f.close();
  
 -    std::string confpaths{al::getenv("XDG_CONFIG_DIRS").value_or("/etc/xdg")};
 +    std::string confpaths{al::getenv("XDG_CONFIG_DIRS").value_or("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/etc/xdg")};
diff --git a/packages/openal-soft/build.sh b/packages/openal-soft/build.sh
index 1b3e5f15aeaae5..1bdc6e99cdddab 100644
--- a/packages/openal-soft/build.sh
+++ b/packages/openal-soft/build.sh
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Software implementation of the OpenAL API"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="LGPL-2.0, BSD 3-Clause"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE_FILE="BSD-3Clause, COPYING"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.23.1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="1.24.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/kcat/openal-soft/archive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=dfddf3a1f61059853c625b7bb03de8433b455f2f79f89548cbcbd5edca3d4a4a
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=d3753f7aba798574ce2dc934e3c47dc655cd7a4652c038f2a860b0e81ff6d3dc
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_UPDATE_METHOD=repology
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++"
diff --git a/packages/openal-soft/core-helpers.cpp.patch b/packages/openal-soft/core-helpers.cpp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..0fae567d798ac3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/openal-soft/core-helpers.cpp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/core/helpers.cpp
++++ b/core/helpers.cpp
+@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
+         DirectorySearch(std::filesystem::path{*homepath}/".local/share"/path, ext, &results);
+ 
+     /* Search global data dirs */
+-    std::string datadirs{al::getenv("XDG_DATA_DIRS").value_or("/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/")};
++    std::string datadirs{al::getenv("XDG_DATA_DIRS").value_or("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/share/")};
+ 
+     size_t curpos{0u};
+     while(curpos < datadirs.size())
diff --git a/packages/openal-soft/utils-alsoft-config-mainwindow.cpp.patch b/packages/openal-soft/utils-alsoft-config-mainwindow.cpp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..66b33530a7ce4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/openal-soft/utils-alsoft-config-mainwindow.cpp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/utils/alsoft-config/mainwindow.cpp
++++ b/utils/alsoft-config/mainwindow.cpp
+@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
+ #else
+     QString paths = qgetenv("XDG_DATA_DIRS");
+     if(paths.isEmpty())
+-        paths = "/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/";
++        paths = "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/share/";
+ #if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK(5, 14, 0)
+     list += paths.split(QChar(':'), Qt::SkipEmptyParts);
+ #else