diff --git a/dev-util/global/global-6.2.4.bep b/dev-util/global/global-6.2.4.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2fea5fdf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/global/global-6.2.4.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+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-6.2.4.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="c778d4e52a30706db7a02070cce1078c"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND="dev-util/ctags >= 5.8"
+BUILD {
+	cd global-6.2.4
+	autoreconf -fi
+	./configure --prefix="$(finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY)" \
+	--datadir="$(finddir B_COMMON_DOCUMENTATION_DIRECTORY)/doc" \
+	--mandir="$(finddir B_COMMON_DOCUMENTATION_DIRECTORY)/man" \
+	--infodir="$(finddir B_COMMON_DOCUMENTATION_DIRECTORY)/info" \
+	--with-ncurses \
+	--with-exuberant-ctags="$(finddir B_COMMON_BIN_DIRECTORY)/ctags" \
+	--with-posix-sort=/bin/sort
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd global-6.2.4
+	make install
+}
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
+COPYRIGHT="2000-2012 Tama Communications Corporation
+		2007-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
diff --git a/dev-util/global/patches/global-6.2.4.patch b/dev-util/global/patches/global-6.2.4.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..267ae6111
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/global/patches/global-6.2.4.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+diff -up global-6.2.4/configure.ac.orig global-6.2.4/configure.ac
+--- global-6.2.4/configure.ac.orig	2012-05-30 03:30:15.003670016 -0600
++++ global-6.2.4/configure.ac	2012-07-26 22:38:17.379060224 -0600
+@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ 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-6.2.4/libdb/db.h.orig global-6.2.4/libdb/db.h
+--- global-6.2.4/libdb/db.h.orig	2012-05-30 03:30:15.028311552 -0600
++++ global-6.2.4/libdb/db.h	2012-07-26 22:38:17.392429568 -0600
+@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
+ #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
+ #include <unistd.h>
+ #endif
++#ifdef HAVE_STDINT_H
++#include <stdint.h>
++#endif
+ 
+ #include "compat.h"
+ 
+diff -up global-6.2.4/m4/check_curses.m4.orig global-6.2.4/m4/check_curses.m4
+--- global-6.2.4/m4/check_curses.m4.orig	2012-05-30 03:30:15.003407872 -0600
++++ global-6.2.4/m4/check_curses.m4	2012-07-26 22:38:17.409206784 -0600
+@@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_SEARCH_NCURSES], [
+ 
+     AC_NCURSES(/usr/include/ncurses, curses.h, -lncurses, -I/usr/include/ncurses -DRENAMED_NCURSES, "renamed ncurses on /usr/include/ncurses")
+ 
++    AC_NCURSES(/boot/develop/headers/3rdparty, ncurses.h, -lncurses, -I/boot/develop/headers/3rdparty, "ncurses on /boot/develop")
++    AC_NCURSES(/boot/common/include/ncurses, ncurses.h, -lncurses, -I/boot/common/include/ncurses, "ncurses on /boot/common")
++
+     dnl
+     dnl We couldn't find ncurses, try SysV curses
+     dnl