diff --git a/dev-util/global/global-5.9.bep b/dev-util/global/global-5.9.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0027af52c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/global/global-5.9.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+DESCRIPTION="GNU Global is a source code tagging system." 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/global/" 
+SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/global/global-5.9.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="258276ba3ba2ca1faa3c86bd6b4d8c95"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+BUILD {
+	cd global-5.9
+	autoreconf -fi
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common --with-exuberant-ctags=/bin/ctags --with-posix-sort=/bin/sort
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd global-5.9
+	make install
+}
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
+COPYRIGHT="2000-2010 Tama Communications Corporation
+		2007-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
diff --git a/dev-util/global/patches/global-5.9.patch b/dev-util/global/patches/global-5.9.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..be036718f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/global/patches/global-5.9.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+diff -up global-5.9/configure.ac.orig global-5.9/configure.ac
+--- global-5.9/configure.ac.orig	2010-06-07 22:07:47.039059456 -0600
++++ global-5.9/configure.ac	2010-07-03 16:16:00.980418560 -0600
+@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ LTDL_INIT([recursive])
+ dnl Checks for libraries.
+ 
+ dnl Checks for header files.
+-AC_CHECK_HEADERS(limits.h string.h unistd.h stdarg.h sys/time.h fcntl.h)
++AC_CHECK_HEADERS(limits.h string.h unistd.h stdarg.h stdint.h sys/time.h fcntl.h)
+ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/resource.h)
+ AC_HEADER_DIRENT
+ if test ${ac_header_dirent} = no; then
+diff -up global-5.9/libdb/db.h.orig global-5.9/libdb/db.h
+--- global-5.9/libdb/db.h.orig	2010-06-07 22:07:47.062914560 -0600
++++ global-5.9/libdb/db.h	2010-07-03 16:16:00.983564288 -0600
+@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
+ #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
+ #include <unistd.h>
+ #endif
++#ifdef HAVE_STDINT_H
++#include <stdint.h>
++#endif
+ 
+ #include "compat.h"
+