diff --git a/Library/Formula/libcanberra.rb b/Library/Formula/libcanberra.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..caee807278bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Library/Formula/libcanberra.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+require 'formula'
+
+class Libcanberra < Formula
+  homepage 'http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/'
+  url 'http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/libcanberra-0.29.tar.xz'
+  version '0.29'
+  sha1 '74052db5d1369a52c00aa11cd2310111380345c1'
+
+  head 'git://git.0pointer.de/libcanberra'
+
+  depends_on 'gtk+3'
+  depends_on 'gconf'
+  depends_on 'libgtop'
+  depends_on 'libvorbis'
+  depends_on 'libogg'
+  depends_on 'pulseaudio' # at least one audio backend is required
+  depends_on :x11 # required if cairo depends on xcb_shm
+
+  def patches
+    DATA
+  end
+
+  def install
+    system "./autogen.sh" if build.head?
+
+    system "./configure", "--enable-gtk3",
+                          "--disable-null",
+                          "--prefix=#{prefix}"
+
+    system "make install" 
+  end
+end
+
+# Remove --as-needed and --gc-sections linker flag as it causes linking to fail
+__END__
+diff --git a/configure b/configure
+index a01b013..3b6e02c 100755
+--- a/configure
++++ b/configure
+@@ -5599,9 +5599,7 @@ WARNINGFLAGS=$with_cflags
+ 
+ 
+ 
+-  for flag in \
+-        -Wl,--as-needed \
+-        -Wl,--gc-sections; do
++  for flag in ; do
+ 
+   { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking if $CC supports flag $flag in envvar LDFLAGS" >&5
+ $as_echo_n "checking if $CC supports flag $flag in envvar LDFLAGS... " >&6; }
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 7fe044c..03d69b6 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -113,9 +113,7 @@ CC_CHECK_FLAGS_APPEND([with_cflags], [CFLAGS], [\
+         -fdata-sections])
+ AC_SUBST([WARNINGFLAGS], $with_cflags)
+ 
+-CC_CHECK_FLAGS_APPEND([with_ldflags], [LDFLAGS], [\
+-        -Wl,--as-needed \
+-        -Wl,--gc-sections])
++CC_CHECK_FLAGS_APPEND([with_ldflags], [LDFLAGS], [])
+ AC_SUBST([GCLDFLAGS], $with_ldflags)
+ 
+ #### libtool stuff ####