diff --git a/dev-libs/libelf/libelf-0.8.13.bep b/dev-libs/libelf/libelf-0.8.13.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d1a0c7ebb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libelf/libelf-0.8.13.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+DESCRIPTION="libelf - ELF object file access library"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.mr511.de/software/english.html"
+SRC_URI="http://www.mr511.de/software/libelf-0.8.13.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="4136d7b4c04df68b686570afa26988ac"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+BUILD {
+		cd libelf-0.8.13
+		libtoolize -fci
+		autoreconf
+		./configure --enable-gnu-names --prefix=$(finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY)
+		make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+		cd libelf-0.8.13
+		make install instroot=$DESTDIR
+		make install-compat instroot=$DESTDIR
+}
+LICENSE="GNU LGPL v2"
+COPYRIGHT="1995-2008 Michael Riepe"
diff --git a/dev-libs/libelf/patches/libelf-0.8.13.patch b/dev-libs/libelf/patches/libelf-0.8.13.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3122add35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libelf/patches/libelf-0.8.13.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+diff -Naur libelf-0.8.13/aclocal.m4 libelf-0.8.13-haiku/aclocal.m4
+--- libelf-0.8.13/aclocal.m4	2008-05-23 08:17:56.050593792 +0000
++++ libelf-0.8.13-haiku/aclocal.m4	2012-08-21 14:55:07.622854144 +0000
+@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
+     AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])
+     AC_PATH_PROG(LD, ld, ld)
+     case "$host" in
+-      *-linux*|*-gnu*)
++      *-linux*|*-gnu*|*-haiku*)
+ 	if test "$GCC" = yes; then
+ 	  mr_TARGET_ELF
+ 	  if test "$mr_cv_target_elf" = yes; then
+@@ -248,7 +248,11 @@
+ 	    SONAME_SFX='.so.$(MAJOR)'
+ 	    LINK_SHLIB='$(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname,$(SONAME)'
+ 	    INSTALL_SHLIB='$(INSTALL_PROGRAM)'
+-	    DEPSHLIBS='-lc'
++	      case "$host" in
++		    *-linux*|*-gnu*)
++	          DEPSHLIBS='-lc'
++	      ;;
++	      esac
+ 	  else
+ 	    AC_MSG_WARN([shared libraries not supported for $host])
+ 	    mr_enable_shared=no