diff --git a/printing/xpp/xpp-1.5-glibc-2.10.patch b/printing/xpp/xpp-1.5-glibc-2.10.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f789d431
--- /dev/null
+++ b/printing/xpp/xpp-1.5-glibc-2.10.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../xpp/xpp-1.5-glibc-2.10.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2011 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
+# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
+# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
+# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+# version.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+Description: Fix build agains glibc >= 2.10
+
+Origin: Gentoo Linux
+
+diff -ur xpp-1.5.orig/xpp.cxx xpp-1.5/xpp.cxx
+--- xpp-1.5.orig/xpp.cxx	2004-12-06 21:00:04.000000000 +0200
++++ xpp-1.5/xpp.cxx	2009-08-09 17:27:01.000000000 +0300
+@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
+ 	    {	  
+ 	      char *tmp;
+ 
+-	      if ((tmp = strchr(dest,'/'))) {
++	      if ((tmp = const_cast <char*> (strchr(dest,'/')))) {
+ 		tmp[0] = '\0';
+ 		instance = tmp + 1;
+ 	      }