diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index d10935bd133..90d91729b80 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2713,3 +2713,4 @@ libgnome-autoar-0.so.0 gnome-autoar-0.1.1_1
 libgnome-autoar-gtk-0.so.0 gnome-autoar-0.1.1_1
 libxapp.so.1 xapps-1.0.2_1
 libite.so.3 libite-1.8.2_1
+liblog4cplus-1.2.so.5 log4cplus-1.2.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/log4cplus/template b/srcpkgs/log4cplus/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e56d55e567e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/log4cplus/template
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Template file for 'log4cplus'
+pkgname=log4cplus
+version=1.2.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--with-working-locale"
+short_desc="C++ logger very close to Java's log4j"
+maintainer="Juergen Buchmueller <pullmoll@t-online.de>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://log4cplus.sourceforge.net/"
+distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
+checksum=93aa5b26425f0b1596c5e5b3d58916988fdd83b359a02ca59878eb5c7c2ec6c2
+
+# Reduce log spamming for deprecated auto_ptr
+CXXFLAGS="-Wno-deprecated-declarations"
+
+log4cplus-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}