diff --git a/srcpkgs/libmemcached-devel b/srcpkgs/libmemcached-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..f6ef1b236c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libmemcached-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libmemcached
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libmemcached-docs b/srcpkgs/libmemcached-docs
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..f6ef1b236c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libmemcached-docs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libmemcached
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libmemcached/patches/libmemcached-fix-linking-with-libpthread.patch b/srcpkgs/libmemcached/patches/libmemcached-fix-linking-with-libpthread.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7660615781
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libmemcached/patches/libmemcached-fix-linking-with-libpthread.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+diff -up build-aux/ltmain.sh
+--- build-aux/ltmain.sh	2013-12-03 16:36:53.222107642 +0100
++++ build-aux/ltmain.sh	2013-12-03 16:37:35.770132249 +0100
+@@ -5664,6 +5664,15 @@ func_mode_link ()
+ 	    *" $arg "*) ;;
+ 	    * ) func_append new_inherited_linker_flags " $arg" ;;
+ 	esac
++	# As we are forced to pass -nostdlib to g++ during linking, the option
++	# -pthread{,s} is not in effect;  add the -lpthread to $deplist
++	# explicitly to link correctly.
++	if test "$tagname" = CXX -a x"$with_gcc" = xyes; then
++	  case "$arg" in
++	    -pthread*) func_append deplibs " -lpthread" ;;
++	  esac
++	fi
++
+ 	continue
+ 	;;
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libmemcached/patches/musl-fixes.patch b/srcpkgs/libmemcached/patches/musl-fixes.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3c63bba219
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libmemcached/patches/musl-fixes.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+diff --git libhashkit/fnv_64.cc libhashkit/fnv_64.cc
+index 68e4dd0..88bbace 100644
+--- libhashkit/fnv_64.cc
++++ libhashkit/fnv_64.cc
+@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
+ 
+ 
+ #include <libhashkit/common.h>
++#ifndef __GLIBC__
++#include <sys/reg.h>
++#endif
+ 
+ #if __WORDSIZE == 64 && defined(HAVE_FNV64_HASH)
+ 
+diff --git libhashkit/has.cc libhashkit/has.cc
+index 843e32e..7dbadc3 100644
+--- libhashkit/has.cc
++++ libhashkit/has.cc
+@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
+ 
+ 
+ #include <libhashkit/common.h>
++#ifndef __GLIBC__
++#include <sys/reg.h>
++#endif
+ 
+ bool libhashkit_has_algorithm(const hashkit_hash_algorithm_t algo)
+ {
+diff --git libtest/cmdline.cc libtest/cmdline.cc
+index 29a22de..161c646 100644
+--- libtest/cmdline.cc
++++ libtest/cmdline.cc
+@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ using namespace libtest;
+ #include <algorithm>
+ #include <stdexcept>
+ 
+-#ifndef __USE_GNU
++#ifndef _GNU_SOURCE
+ static char **environ= NULL;
+ #endif
+ 
+@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Application::error_t Application::run(const char *args[])
+ 
+   fatal_assert(posix_spawnattr_setsigmask(&spawnattr, &mask) == 0);
+ 
+-#if defined(POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK) || defined(__linux__)
++#if defined(POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK) || defined(__GLIBC__)
+   // Use USEVFORK on linux
+   flags |= POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK;
+ #endif
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libmemcached/template b/srcpkgs/libmemcached/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ba203546f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libmemcached/template
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Template build file for 'libmemcached'
+pkgname=libmemcached
+version=1.0.18
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--prefix=/usr"
+short_desc="C/C++ library to memcached"
+maintainer="John Regan <john@jrjrtech.com>"
+license="BSD"
+homepage="http://libmemcached.org"
+distfiles="http://launchpad.net/${pkgname}/1.0/${version}/+download/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum="e22c0bb032fde08f53de9ffbc5a128233041d9f33b5de022c0978a2149885f82"
+makedepends="libevent-devel libsasl-devel memcached-devel"
+hostmakedepends="perl"
+nocross="yes"
+
+libmemcached-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.a
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}
+
+libmemcached-docs_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - documentation"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/share/man"
+	}
+}
+