diff --git a/app-text/texlive_core/texlive_core-2024.2.recipe b/app-text/texlive_core/texlive_core-2024.2.recipe
index 04c0b6131..ede1e32ec 100644
--- a/app-text/texlive_core/texlive_core-2024.2.recipe
+++ b/app-text/texlive_core/texlive_core-2024.2.recipe
@@ -413,7 +413,6 @@ PROVIDES="
 	cmd:updvitype
 	cmd:uplatex
 	cmd:uplatex_dev
-	cmd:upmendex
 	cmd:upmpost
 	cmd:uppltotf
 	cmd:uptex
@@ -628,7 +627,6 @@ defineDebugInfoPackage texlive_core$secondaryArchSuffix \
 	$prefix/bin/twill \
 	$prefix/bin/upbibtex \
 	$prefix/bin/updvitype \
-	$prefix/bin/upmendex \
 	$prefix/bin/upmpost \
 	$prefix/bin/uppltotf \
 	$prefix/bin/uptex \
@@ -823,6 +821,7 @@ BUILD()
 		--disable-lcdf-typetools \
 		--disable-musixtnt \
 		--disable-psutils \
+		--disable-upmendex \
 		--disable-t1utils \
 		--build=$HOST --host=$HOST
 
diff --git a/dev-tex/upmendex/upmendex-1.09.recipe b/dev-tex/upmendex/upmendex-1.09.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..47d64d7ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-tex/upmendex/upmendex-1.09.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+SUMMARY="Multilingual index processor"
+DESCRIPTION="upmendex is a multilingual index processor with following features:
+ * Mostly compatible with makeindex and upper compatible with mendex, based on mendex version \
+2.6f by ASCII media works.
+ * Unicode for internal process and support UTF-8 encoding for input/output. Work with upLaTeX, \
+XeLaTeX and luaLaTeX.
+ * Support Latin (including non-English), Greek, Cyrillic, Korean Hangul and Chinese Han (Hanzi \
+ideographs) scripts as well as Japanese Kana.
+ * Support Devanagari, Thai, Arabic and Hebrew scripts (experimental).
+ * Support four kinds of sort orders (Pinyin, Radical-Stroke, Stroke and Zhuyin) for Chinese Han \
+scripts (Hanzi ideographs).
+ * Apply International Components for Unicode (ICU) for sorting process."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/t-tk/upmendex-package"
+COPYRIGHT="1995 ASCII Corporation
+	2009 ASCII MEDIA WORKS
+	2015-2023 TANAKA Takuji"
+LICENSE="BSD (3-clause)"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/t-tk/upmendex-package/archive/refs/tags/v$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="a61dcff2311209600dd756de5117967faa8b7781bfa7b176aa6066de75d7c57f"
+SOURCE_DIR="upmendex-package-$portVersion"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="all !x86_gcc2"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	upmendex$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:upmendex = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libicudata$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libicui18n$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libicuio$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libicuuc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libkpathsea$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	devel:libicudata$secondaryArchSuffix >= 74
+	devel:libicui18n$secondaryArchSuffix >= 74
+	devel:libicuio$secondaryArchSuffix >= 74
+	devel:libicuuc$secondaryArchSuffix >= 74
+	devel:libkpathsea$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	# package requirements instead of commands because only data files are needed
+	autoconf
+	automake
+	libtool$secondaryArchSuffix == 2.4.7 # ltmain.sh is picky about its version
+
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:pkg_config$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+defineDebugInfoPackage upmendex$secondaryArchSuffix \
+	$prefix/bin/upmendex
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	# copy missing build-aux files from autotools
+	# we can't use autoreconf here because the m4 macros from texlive are also missing
+	mkdir -p ../build-aux
+	cp $(finddir B_SYSTEM_DATA_DIRECTORY)/autoconf/build-aux/{config.guess,config.sub,install-sh} \
+		../build-aux
+	cp $(finddir B_SYSTEM_DATA_DIRECTORY)/automake-*/{ar-lib,compile,depcomp,missing} ../build-aux
+	cp $(finddir B_SYSTEM_DATA_DIRECTORY)/libtool/build-aux/ltmain.sh ../build-aux
+
+	cd source
+	runConfigure --omit-dirs "binDir" ./configure \
+		--bindir=$prefix/bin \
+		--with-system-kpathsea \
+		--with-system-icu
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	cd source
+	make install
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	cp $(finddir B_SYSTEM_DATA_DIRECTORY)/automake-*/test-driver ../build-aux
+
+	cd source
+	make check
+}