diff --git a/root-packages/libaio/Makefile.patch b/root-packages/libaio/Makefile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..50adf1758
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root-packages/libaio/Makefile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- ../Makefile.orig	2018-12-10 13:16:30.152694737 +0100
++++ ./Makefile	2018-12-10 13:17:15.086091432 +0100
+@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
+ TAG = $(NAME)-$(VERSION)
+ RPMBUILD=$(shell `which rpmbuild >&/dev/null` && echo "rpmbuild" || echo "rpm")
+ 
+-prefix=/usr
++prefix ?= /usr
+ includedir=$(prefix)/include
+ libdir=$(prefix)/lib
+ 
diff --git a/root-packages/libaio/build.sh b/root-packages/libaio/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1620cb603
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root-packages/libaio/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Linux kernel AIO access library"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.3.111
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=62cf871ad8fd09eb3418f00aca7a7d449299b8e1de31c65f28bf6a2ef1fa502a
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libaio/libaio_${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.orig.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
diff --git a/root-packages/libaio/src-Makefile.patch b/root-packages/libaio/src-Makefile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fe8bfa83e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root-packages/libaio/src-Makefile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+--- ../src-Makefile.orig	2018-12-10 13:17:32.262625152 +0100
++++ ./src/Makefile	2018-12-10 13:17:36.358752414 +0100
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-prefix=/usr
++prefix ?= /usr
+ includedir=$(prefix)/include
+ libdir=$(prefix)/lib
+