diff --git a/dev-libs/libedit/libedit-20110802.bep b/dev-libs/libedit/libedit-20110802.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5806b45a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libedit/libedit-20110802.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+DESCRIPTION="A BSD licensed replacement for the GNU readline library." 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/" 
+SRC_URI="http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/libedit-20110802-3.0.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="0ea42e2c794da8ed32f6307b427f6590"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+LICENSE="BSD (3-clause)"
+COPYRIGHT="1992-2010 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc."
+BUILD {
+	cd libedit-20110802-3.0
+	autoreconf --force --install
+	./configure --prefix=`finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY` \
+		--disable-shared \
+		--mandir=`finddir B_COMMON_DOCUMENTATION_DIRECTORY`/man
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd libedit-20110802-3.0
+	make install
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libedit/patches/libedit-20110802.patch b/dev-libs/libedit/patches/libedit-20110802.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..43ecf135a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libedit/patches/libedit-20110802.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+diff -up libedit-20110802-3.0/configure.orig libedit-20110802-3.0/configure.ac
+--- libedit-20110802-3.0/configure.ac.orig	2012-02-24 05:56:43.240648192 +0000
++++ libedit-20110802-3.0/configure.ac	2012-02-24 05:58:15.077856768 +0000
+@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
+ AC_HEADER_DIRENT
+ AC_HEADER_STDC
+ AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT
+-AC_CHECK_HEADERS([fcntl.h limits.h malloc.h stdlib.h string.h sys/ioctl.h sys/param.h unistd.h curses.h ncurses.h sys/cdefs.h termcap.h])
++AC_CHECK_HEADERS([fcntl.h limits.h malloc.h stdint.h stdlib.h string.h sys/errno.h errno.h sys/ioctl.h sys/param.h unistd.h curses.h ncurses.h sys/cdefs.h langinfo.h])
+ 
+ AC_CHECK_HEADER([termios.h], [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([termios.h is required!])],[])
+ 
+diff -up libedit-20110802-3.0/examples/fileman.c.orig libedit-20110802-3.0/examples/fileman.c
+--- libedit-20110802-3.0/examples/fileman.c.orig	2010-04-29 17:11:46.768868352 -0600
++++ libedit-20110802-3.0/examples/fileman.c	2010-04-29 17:11:53.987496448 -0600
+@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@
+ #include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <sys/file.h>
+ #include <sys/stat.h>
++#ifdef HAVE_SYS_ERRNO_H
+ #include <sys/errno.h>
++#elif HAVE_ERRNO_H
++#include <errno.h>
++#endif
+ #include <ctype.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+diff -up libedit-20110802-3.0/src/el.c.orig libedit-20110802-3.0/src/el.c
+--- libedit-20110802-3.0/src/el.c.orig	2010-04-29 17:13:07.215482368 -0600
++++ libedit-20110802-3.0/src/el.c	2010-04-29 17:13:27.866385920 -0600
+@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ __RCSID("$NetBSD: el.c,v 1.59 2010/04/15
+ #include <stdarg.h>
+ #include <ctype.h>
+ #include <locale.h>
++#ifdef HAVE_LANGINFO_H
+ #include <langinfo.h>
++#endif
+ #include "el.h"
+ 
+ /* el_init():
+diff -up libedit-20110802-3.0/src/vis.c.orig libedit-20110802-3.0/src/vis.c
+--- libedit-20110802-3.0/src/vis.c.orig	2010-04-29 17:12:31.912261120 -0600
++++ libedit-20110802-3.0/src/vis.c	2010-04-29 17:12:56.681574400 -0600
+@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ __RCSID("$NetBSD: vis.c,v 1.41 2009/11/2
+ #include <vis.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ 
++#ifdef HAVE_STDINT_H
++#include <stdint.h>
++#endif
++
+ #ifdef __weak_alias
+ __weak_alias(strsvis,_strsvis)
+ __weak_alias(strsvisx,_strsvisx)
+diff -up libedit-20110802-3.0/src/editline/readline.h.orig libedit-20110802-3.0/src/editline/readline.h
+--- libedit-20110802-3.0/src/editline/readline.h.orig	2010-04-29 17:12:05.235143168 -0600
++++ libedit-20110802-3.0/src/editline/readline.h	2010-04-29 17:12:16.735313920 -0600
+@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ typedef KEYMAP_ENTRY *Keymap;
+ 
+ #ifndef CTRL
+ #include <sys/ioctl.h>
+-#if !defined(__sun) && !defined(__hpux) && !defined(_AIX)
++#if !defined(__sun) && !defined(__hpux) && !defined(_AIX) && !defined(__HAIKU__)
+ #include <sys/ttydefaults.h>
+ #endif
+ #ifndef CTRL