diff --git a/packages/security/libgpg-error/build b/packages/security/libgpg-error/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..85c3a55996
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/libgpg-error/build
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
+            --build=$HOST_NAME \
+            --prefix=/usr \
+            --sysconfdir=/etc \
+            --localstatedir=/var \
+            --disable-static \
+            --enable-shared \
+
+make
+$MAKEINSTALL
+
+sed -e "s:\(['= ]\)/usr:\\1$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr:g" -i src/gpg-error-config
+
+cp src/gpg-error-config $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin
+
diff --git a/packages/security/libgpg-error/install b/packages/security/libgpg-error/install
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..6508276a1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/libgpg-error/install
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
+  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/src/.libs/*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/security/libgpg-error/meta b/packages/security/libgpg-error/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6d62f49f49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/libgpg-error/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+PKG_NAME="libgpg-error"
+PKG_VERSION="1.10"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.gnupg.org/"
+PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="security"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="libgpg-error: Library that defines common error values for GnuPG components"
+PKG_LONGDESC="This is a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. Among these are GPG, GPGSM, GPGME, GPG-Agent, libgcrypt, Libksba, DirMngr, Pinentry, SmartCard Daemon and possibly more in the future."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"