diff --git a/srcpkgs/gperftools-devel b/srcpkgs/gperftools-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..19dd6ecb812
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gperftools-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+gperftools
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gperftools/patches/armv6.patch b/srcpkgs/gperftools/patches/armv6.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..14b97529cf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gperftools/patches/armv6.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -urN src/base/atomicops.h src/base/atomicops.h
+--- src/base/atomicops.h	2013-07-30 03:12:11.000000000 -0600
++++ src/base/atomicops.h	2013-08-22 16:40:55.204885730 -0600
+@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
+ // TODO(csilvers): match piii, not just __i386.  Also, match k8
+ #if defined(__MACH__) && defined(__APPLE__)
+ #include "base/atomicops-internals-macosx.h"
+-#elif defined(__GNUC__) && defined(ARMV6)
++#elif defined(__GNUC__) && defined(ARMV7)
+ #include "base/atomicops-internals-arm-v6plus.h"
+ #elif defined(ARMV3)
+ #include "base/atomicops-internals-arm-generic.h"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gperftools/template b/srcpkgs/gperftools/template
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index 00000000000..eeb87013ba5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gperftools/template
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Template build file for 'gperftools'
+pkgname=gperftools
+version=2.1
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="multi-threaded malloc() and performance analysis tools"
+maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
+license="BSD-3-Clause"
+homepage="http://gperftools.googlecode.com"
+distfiles="${homepage}/files/gperftools-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=f3ade29924f89409d8279ab39e00af7420593baa4941c318db42e70ead7e494f
+makedepends="libunwind-devel"
+
+gperftools-devel_package() {
+	depends="gperftools>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/share
+	}
+}