diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/strace/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/strace/package.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f419f9712c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/strace/package.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of LibreELEC - http://www.libreelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2016 Team LibreELEC
+#
+#  LibreELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  LibreELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with LibreELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="strace"
+PKG_VERSION="4.11"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
+PKG_SITE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/"
+PKG_URL="$SOURCEFORGE_SRC/strace/strace/$PKG_VERSION/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="tools"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="strace: Trace system calls and signals"
+PKG_LONGDESC="In the simplest case strace runs the specified command until it exits. It intercepts and records the system calls which are called by a process and the signals which are received by a process. The name of each system call, its arguments and its return value are printed on standard error or to the file specified with the -o option."
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
+
+makeinstall_target() {
+  : # nothing to do here
+}
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/strace/patches/strace-4.8-autoreconf.patch b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/strace/patches/strace-4.8-autoreconf.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf7efa09c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/strace/patches/strace-4.8-autoreconf.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff -Naur strace-4.8/configure.ac strace-4.8.patch/configure.ac
+--- strace-4.8/configure.ac	2013-05-04 21:51:57.000000000 +0200
++++ strace-4.8.patch/configure.ac	2013-09-04 03:30:12.478057723 +0200
+@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
+ dnl Process this file with autoconf to create configure.  Use autoreconf.
+ AC_PREREQ(2.57)
+-AC_INIT([strace],
+-	m4_esyscmd([./git-version-gen .tarball-version]),
+-	[strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net])
++AC_INIT([strace],[4.8])
+ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([strace.c])
+ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])
+ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])