diff --git a/packages/pigz/build.sh b/packages/pigz/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..721f5f8c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/pigz/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.zlib.net/pigz
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Parallel implementation of the gzip file compressor"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="ZLIB"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.4
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.zlib.net/pigz/pigz-$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=a4f816222a7b4269bd232680590b579ccc72591f1bb5adafcd7208ca77e14f73
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="zlib"
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true
+
+termux_step_make_install() {
+	install -Dm700 pigz $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/pigz
+	ln -sfr $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/pigz $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/unpigz
+	install -Dm600 pigz.1 $TERMUX_PREFIX/share/man/man1/pigz.1
+}
diff --git a/packages/pigz/pigz-2.4_Makefile.patch b/packages/pigz/pigz-2.4_Makefile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff4d63eb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/pigz/pigz-2.4_Makefile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff -uNr pigz-2.4/Makefile pigz-2.4.mod/Makefile
+--- pigz-2.4/Makefile	2017-12-27 02:35:01.000000000 +0200
++++ pigz-2.4.mod/Makefile	2019-09-23 22:45:25.088019565 +0300
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+-CC=gcc
+-CFLAGS=-O3 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unknown-pragmas
+-LDFLAGS=
+-LIBS=-lm -lpthread -lz
++CC?=gcc
++CFLAGS+=-Wall -Wextra -Wno-unknown-pragmas
++LDFLAGS?=
++LIBS=-lz -lm
+ ZOPFLI=zopfli/src/zopfli/
+ ZOP=deflate.o blocksplitter.o tree.o lz77.o cache.o hash.o util.o squeeze.o katajainen.o
+ 
diff --git a/packages/pigz/pigz-2.4_yarn.c.patch b/packages/pigz/pigz-2.4_yarn.c.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ef4628727
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/pigz/pigz-2.4_yarn.c.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -uNr pigz-2.4/yarn.c pigz-2.4.mod/yarn.c
+--- pigz-2.4/yarn.c	2015-01-20 06:12:31.000000000 +0200
++++ pigz-2.4.mod/yarn.c	2019-09-23 22:45:59.981446648 +0300
+@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
+ {
+     int ret;
+ 
+-    if ((ret = pthread_cancel(off_course->id)) != 0)
++    if ((ret = pthread_kill(off_course->id, 0)) != 0)
+         fail(ret);
+     join(off_course);
+ }