diff --git a/package/rabbitmq-c/rabbitmq-c.hash b/package/rabbitmq-c/rabbitmq-c.hash
index 45e8cbd822..0af88774e6 100644
--- a/package/rabbitmq-c/rabbitmq-c.hash
+++ b/package/rabbitmq-c/rabbitmq-c.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256 d8ed9dcb49903d83d79d7b227da35ef68c60e5e0b08d0fc1fb4e4dc577b8802b rabbitmq-c-v0.8.0.tar.gz
+sha256 316c0d156452b488124806911a62e0c2aa8a546d38fc8324719cd29aaa493024 rabbitmq-c-v0.9.0.tar.gz
+sha256 94a12c906acb31a66c2c8a6c1b6e46cab52bc5694c5ada2a06d86b05d3d3f422 LICENSE-MIT
diff --git a/package/rabbitmq-c/rabbitmq-c.mk b/package/rabbitmq-c/rabbitmq-c.mk
index d496a4c09b..a3c4f8219f 100644
--- a/package/rabbitmq-c/rabbitmq-c.mk
+++ b/package/rabbitmq-c/rabbitmq-c.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-RABBITMQ_C_VERSION = v0.8.0
+RABBITMQ_C_VERSION = v0.9.0
 RABBITMQ_C_SITE = $(call github,alanxz,rabbitmq-c,$(RABBITMQ_C_VERSION))
 RABBITMQ_C_LICENSE = MIT
 RABBITMQ_C_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE-MIT
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ RABBITMQ_C_CONF_OPTS = \
 	-DBUILD_API_DOCS=OFF \
 	-DBUILD_TOOLS_DOCS=OFF
 
+# Before CMake 3.10, passing THREADS_PTHREAD_ARG=OFF was needed to
+# disable a try_run() call in the FindThreads tests, which caused a
+# build failure when cross-compiling.
+RABBITMQ_C_CONF_OPTS += -DTHREADS_PTHREAD_ARG=OFF
+
 # BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is handled in pkg-cmake.mk as it is a generic cmake variable
 ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)
 RABBITMQ_C_CONF_OPTS += -DBUILD_STATIC_LIBS=ON