diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 88bdef8c449..50c4d805520 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1618,4 +1618,4 @@ libBulletDynamics.so.2.82 bullet-2.82_1
 libBulletCollision.so.2.82 bullet-2.82_1
 libLinearMath.so.2.82 bullet-2.82_1
 libBulletSoftBody.so.2.82 bullet-2.82_1
-
+libinotifytools.so.0 libinotifytools-3.14_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/inotify-tools-devel b/srcpkgs/inotify-tools-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..55b3a94228e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/inotify-tools-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+inotify-tools
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/inotify-tools/template b/srcpkgs/inotify-tools/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..057b9c67ac6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/inotify-tools/template
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Template build file for 'inotify-tools'
+pkgname=inotify-tools
+version=3.14
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="provides a simple interface to inotify"
+maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
+license="GPLv2"
+hostmakedepends="autoconf automake libtool"
+homepage="http://wiki.github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/"
+distfiles="https://github.com/rvoicilas/${pkgname}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=97a4fdf9132da47c2baa677c1a427c435ee55a26df42b2b74a41489b9fbd2323
+
+pre_configure() {
+	autoreconf -i
+}
+
+libinotify-tools_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - library files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so.*"
+	}
+}
+
+inotify-tools-devel_package() {
+	depends="inotify-tools>=${version}_${revision} libinotify-tools>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/share
+	}
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libinotify-tools b/srcpkgs/libinotify-tools
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..55b3a94228e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libinotify-tools
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+inotify-tools
\ No newline at end of file