diff --git a/srcpkgs/kcov/patches/musl.patch b/srcpkgs/kcov/patches/musl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0d5510434c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/kcov/patches/musl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- src/engines/ptrace.cc.orig  2016-10-12 16:59:39.621744581 +0200
++++ src/engines/ptrace.cc   2016-10-12 17:00:04.938745887 +0200
+@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
+ #define str(s) #s
+ #define xstr(s) str(s)
+
++#ifndef __GLIBC__
++typedef int __ptrace_request;
++#endif
++
+ enum
+ {
+    i386_EIP = 12,
diff --git a/srcpkgs/kcov/template b/srcpkgs/kcov/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f7eedeeabf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/kcov/template
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+pkgname=kcov
+version=31
+revision=1
+build_style=cmake
+hostmakedepends="python pkg-config"
+makedepends="binutils-devel libcurl-devel elfutils-devel"
+short_desc="Code coverage tester for compiled programs, Python and shell"
+maintainer="Felix Van der Jeugt <felix.vanderjeugt@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://simonkagstrom.github.io/kcov/index.html"
+distfiles="https://github.com/SimonKagstrom/kcov/archive/v$version.tar.gz>$pkgname-v$version.tar.gz"
+checksum="0f36a46ada2dcdc297f2a4deed1f910b8f3fac801eb22f4d4c8f7abfcada3f91"