diff --git a/net-misc/wget/patches/wget-1.12.patch b/net-misc/wget/patches/wget-1.12.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..88e314b8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-misc/wget/patches/wget-1.12.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -urN wget-1.12/m4/wget.m4 wget-1.12-haiku/m4/wget.m4
+--- wget-1.12/m4/wget.m4	2009-09-21 20:18:44.002097152 -0700
++++ wget-1.12-haiku/m4/wget.m4	2010-10-21 16:25:18.000000000 -0700
+@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@
+     AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, $wget_check_in_nsl)
+   fi
+   AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, socket)
++  AC_CHECK_LIB(network, socket)
+ ])
+ 
+ 
diff --git a/net-misc/wget/wget-1.12.bep b/net-misc/wget/wget-1.12.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8954800d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-misc/wget/wget-1.12.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+DESCRIPTION="wget" 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget" 
+SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="141461b9c04e454dc8933c9d1f2abf83"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="broken"
+DEPEND=""
+BUILD {
+	cd wget-1.12
+	libtoolize --force --copy --install
+	aclocal -I m4
+	autoconf
+	./configure --prefix=`finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY` \
+		--disable-nls --disable-ipv6
+	make 
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd wget-1.12
+	make install
+}
+
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
+COPYRIGHT="2009 Free Software Foundation"