diff --git a/srcpkgs/libpcre b/srcpkgs/libpcre
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..e95712375c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libpcre
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pcre
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcre.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcre.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..defd579f10e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/libpcre.template
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Template file for 'libpcre'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} - shared libraries"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains the shared libraries for use in client programs."
+
+replaces="pcre<8.11"
+
+Add_dependency run libgcc
+Add_dependency run glibc
+Add_dependency run libstdc++
+
+do_install()
+{
+	install -d ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/*.so* ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
index 2dfd3ab1c4c..36350e86433 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ long_desc="${long_desc}
 
 Add_dependency run zlib-devel
 Add_dependency run bzip2-devel
-Add_dependency run pcre
+Add_dependency run libpcre
 
 do_install()
 {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/template b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
index 35ebf01d77a..939371b2eb0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'pcre'
 pkgname=pcre
-version=8.10
-distfiles="$SOURCEFORGE_SITE/pcre/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
+version=8.11
+distfiles="ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-$version.tar.bz2"
 build_style=gnu_configure
 configure_args="--enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties
 --enable-pcregrep-libz --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 --enable-newline-is-anycrlf"
 short_desc="Perl Compatible Regular Expressions"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=7ac4e016f6bad8c7d990e6de9bce58c04ff5dd8838be0c5ada0afad1d6a07480
+checksum=715a002f49ecae31da033f1baec955d9e478138c6bbf11214d41dbe5034f5cd7
 long_desc="
  The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression
  pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE
@@ -15,11 +15,10 @@ long_desc="
  correspond to the POSIX regular expression API. The PCRE library is free,
  even for building commercial software."
 
-subpackages="pcre-devel"
+subpackages="libpcre pcre-devel"
+
 Add_dependency run glibc
-Add_dependency run libgcc
-Add_dependency run libstdc++
 Add_dependency run zlib
-Add_dependency run bzip2
+Add_dependency run libpcre
 Add_dependency build zlib-devel
 Add_dependency build bzip2-devel
diff --git a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
index 73ec2640efc..e0014fe01bd 100644
--- a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
+++ b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
@@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ libidn.so.11			libidn			libidn-devel
 libusb-1.0.so			libusb			libusb-devel
 libusb-0.1.so			libusb-compat		libusb-compat-devel
 libpci.so			pciutils		pciutils-devel
-libpcre.so			pcre			pcre-devel
-libpcreposix.so			pcre			pcre-devel
-libpcrecpp.so			pcre			pcre-devel
+libpcre.so			libpcre			pcre-devel
+libpcreposix.so			libpcre			pcre-devel
+libpcrecpp.so			libpcre			pcre-devel
 libgirepository-gimarshallingtests-1.0.so	libgirepository	libgirepository-devel
 libgirepository-everything-1.0.so		libgirepository	libgirepository-devel
 libgirepository-1.0.so				libgirepository	libgirepository-devel