diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 7077be34ea..bd6d5017fe 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1181,3 +1181,4 @@ libtinyxml.so.0 tinyxml-2.6.2_1
 libbluray.so.1 libbluray-0.2.3_1
 libnfs.so.1 libnfs-1.3.0_1
 libzip.so.2 libzip-0.10.1_1
+libapp.so.0 libapp-20110513_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libapp-devel b/srcpkgs/libapp-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..0d26f3c454
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libapp-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libapp
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libapp/libapp-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libapp/libapp-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bfe783d672
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libapp/libapp-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Template file for 'libapp-devel'.
+short_desc="${short_desc} - development files"
+depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}"
+noarch=yes
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libapp/patches/fix_makefile.patch b/srcpkgs/libapp/patches/fix_makefile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8d045333c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libapp/patches/fix_makefile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+--- Makefile.orig	2013-02-11 15:06:43.831345892 +0100
++++ Makefile	2013-02-11 15:07:53.196725322 +0100
+@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ apptest.o: base.h apptest.c app.h list.h
+ list.o: base.h list.h list.c
+ 
+ $(SONAME).$(VER):	$(OBJS)
+-	$(CC) $(MY_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-soname=$(SONAME) -shared  -o $@ $(OBJS)
++	$(CC) $(MY_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-soname=$(SONAME).0 -shared  -o $@ $(OBJS)
+ 
+ .c.o:
+ 	$(CC) $(MY_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
+@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ clean:
+ 
+ install: $(SONAME) libapp.pc
+ 	install -d '$(LIBDIR)'
+-	$(INSTALL_S) -t '$(LIBDIR)' $(SONAME).$(VER)
++	install -m 755 $(SONAME).$(VER) $(LIBDIR)
+ 	$(LN_SF) $(SONAME).$(VER) '$(LIBDIR)'/$(SONAME)
++	$(LN_SF) $(SONAME).$(VER) '$(LIBDIR)'/$(SONAME).0
+ 	install -d '$(INCAPPDIR)'
+ 	install -m 644 -t '$(INCAPPDIR)' $(HEADERS)
+ 	install -d '$(PKGCONFIGDIR)'
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libapp/template b/srcpkgs/libapp/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cb4787469d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libapp/template
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Template file for 'libapp'
+pkgname=libapp
+version=20110513
+revision=1
+subpackages="libapp-devel"
+short_desc="utilities for repetitive tasks in app development"
+maintainer="pancake <pancake@nopcode.org>"
+license="LGPL-3"
+homepage="https://github.com/drotiro/libapp"
+distfiles="${homepage}/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=654604b5ead726de0ebb1932b49785a6146c59d312f4931080a04e86b7afb177
+
+makedepends="git"
+nofetch=yes
+noextract=yes
+
+do_fetch() {
+	git clone git://github.com/drotiro/libapp.git ${pkgname}-${version}
+	cd ${pkgname}-${version}
+	git reset --hard e91cd8d35f16f73a8f5fb067470024228c9cdabd
+}
+
+do_build() {
+	make ${makejobs} PREFIX=/usr
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	make install PREFIX=${DESTDIR}/usr
+}