diff --git a/packages/gnucobol/build.sh b/packages/gnucobol/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f33fcbead
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/gnucobol/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="A free/libre COBOL compiler"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0, LGPL-3.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=3.1.2
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=597005d71fd7d65b90cbe42bbfecd5a9ec0445388639404662e70d53ddf22574
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="json-c, libgmp, libvbisam, libxml2, ncurses"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
+--without-db
+--with-json=json-c
+--with-vbisam
+"
+
+termux_step_pre_configure() {
+	local lp64="$(( $TERMUX_ARCH_BITS / 32 - 1 ))"
+	export COB_LI_IS_LL="${lp64}"
+	export COB_32_BIT_LONG="$(( 1 - ${lp64} ))"
+	export COB_HAS_64_BIT_POINTER="${lp64}"
+
+	local bin="$TERMUX_PKG_BUILDDIR/bin"
+	local sh="$(which sh)"
+	mkdir -p "$bin"
+	for p in xml2; do
+		local conf="$bin/${p}-config"
+		cat > "$conf" <<-EOF
+			#!${sh}
+			exec sh "$TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/${p}-config" "\$@"
+		EOF
+		chmod 0700 "$conf"
+	done
+	export PATH="$bin":$PATH
+}
diff --git a/packages/gnucobol/libcob-common.c.patch b/packages/gnucobol/libcob-common.c.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..18c1f2abc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/gnucobol/libcob-common.c.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+--- a/libcob/common.c
++++ b/libcob/common.c
+@@ -4631,9 +4631,9 @@
+ #else
+ 		if ((tmpdir = check_valid_env_tmpdir ("TMP")) == NULL
+ 		 && (tmpdir = check_valid_env_tmpdir ("TEMP")) == NULL) {
+-			if (!check_valid_dir ("/tmp")) {
+-				tmp = cob_fast_malloc (5U);
+-				strcpy (tmp, "/tmp");
++			if (!check_valid_dir ("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp")) {
++				tmp = cob_fast_malloc (strlen("@TERMUX_PREFIX@") + 5U);
++				strcpy (tmp, "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp");
+ 				tmpdir = tmp;
+ 			}
+ 		}