diff --git a/packages/libedit/build.sh b/packages/libedit/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f46c7148c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libedit/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://thrysoee.dk/editline/
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library providing line editing, history, and tokenization functions"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=20170329-3.1
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://thrysoee.dk/editline/libedit-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=91f2d90fbd2a048ff6dad7131d9a39e690fd8a8fd982a353f1333dd4017dd4be
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, ncurses"
+
+termux_step_pre_configure() {
+	CFLAGS+=" -D__STDC_ISO_10646__=201103L -DNBBY=CHAR_BIT"
+}
diff --git a/packages/libedit/src-readline.c.patch b/packages/libedit/src-readline.c.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4bbc620f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libedit/src-readline.c.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+diff -u -r ../libedit-20170329-3.1/src/readline.c ./src/readline.c
+--- ../libedit-20170329-3.1/src/readline.c	2017-03-29 20:15:04.000000000 +0200
++++ ./src/readline.c	2017-04-07 02:16:41.501547191 +0200
+@@ -1772,6 +1772,9 @@
+ char *
+ username_completion_function(const char *text, int state)
+ {
++#ifdef __ANDROID__
++	return NULL;
++#else
+ 	struct passwd *pass = NULL;
+ 
+ 	if (text[0] == '\0')
+@@ -1794,6 +1797,7 @@
+ 		return NULL;
+ 	}
+ 	return strdup(pass->pw_name);
++#endif
+ }
+ 
+