diff --git a/common/cross-profiles/musl-gnulibfix b/common/cross-profiles/musl-gnulibfix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a9ff663d3a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/cross-profiles/musl-gnulibfix
@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+empty_file() {
+        rm -f "$1"
+        touch "$1"
+}
+
+dir="$1"
+# fix files breaking the build entirely
+for i in fseeko.c freadahead.c fseterr.c ; do empty_file "$dir"/$i ; done
+echo "void close_stdin(void) {}" > "$dir"/closein.c
+
+# fix stuff trying to reimplement libc
+culprits=`cat << EOF
+accept4
+acosl
+alloca
+alphasort
+asinl
+asprintf
+atanl
+atexit
+atoll
+bcopy
+btowc
+chown
+closedir
+cosl
+dirfd
+dprintf
+dup2
+dup3
+_Exit
+expl
+fchdir
+fchown-stub
+fdatasync
+fdopendir
+ffs
+flock
+fnmatch
+forkpty
+fpending
+fprintf
+freeaddrinfo
+fsync
+ftell
+ftruncate
+futimens
+gai_strerror
+getaddrinfo
+getdelim
+getdtablesize
+getgroups
+gethostname
+getline
+getlogin
+getlogin_r
+getnameinfo
+getpagesize
+getpass
+getsubopt
+gettimeofday
+getusershell
+gmtime_r
+grantpt
+imaxabs
+imaxdiv
+inet_ntop
+inet_pton
+isblank
+iswblank
+lchmod
+lchown
+ldexp
+ldexpl
+link
+linkat
+logl
+mbrlen
+mbrtowc
+mbsinit
+memmove
+mempcpy
+mkdtemp
+mkfifo
+mkfifoat
+mknod
+mknodat
+mkstemp
+mktime
+nanosleep
+nl_langinfo
+open
+openat
+opendir
+openpty
+pclose
+perror
+pipe
+pipe2
+poll
+popen
+pread
+pselect
+ptsname
+pwrite
+raise
+readdir
+readlink
+renameat
+rewinddir
+setenv
+sigaction
+sigaddset
+sigdelset
+sigemptyset
+sigfillset
+sigismember
+sigpending
+sigprocmask
+sinl
+snprintf
+spawnattr_destroy
+spawnattr_getdefault
+spawnattr_getflags
+spawnattr_getpgroup
+spawnattr_getsigmask
+spawnattr_init
+spawnattr_setdefault.c
+spawnattr_setflags
+spawnattr_setpgroup
+spawnattr_setsigmask
+spawn_faction_addclose
+spawn_faction_adddup2
+spawn_faction_addopen
+spawn_faction_destroy
+spawn_faction_init
+spawn_factions_addopen
+spawn_factions_destroy
+spawn_factions_init
+sprintf
+sqrtl
+stdio-read
+stdio-write
+strcasecmp
+strcasestr
+strchrnul
+strcspn
+strncasecmp
+strndup
+strnlen
+strpbrk
+strsep
+strsignal
+strstr
+strtod
+strtoimax
+strtol
+symlink
+symlinkat
+tanl
+tcgetsid
+timegm
+time_r
+times
+tmpfile
+uname
+unlockpt
+unsetenv
+usleep
+vasprintf
+vdprintf
+waitpid
+wcrtomb
+wctob
+EOF
+`
+#fixme check fsusage
+for i in $culprits ; do empty_file "$dir"/$i.c ; done