diff --git a/community/opencollada/PKGBUILD b/community/opencollada/PKGBUILD
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index 000000000..b1826d695
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/opencollada/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# $Id$
+# Maintainer: Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - patch to fix signed char usage
+
+pkgname=opencollada
+pkgver=1.6.59
+pkgrel=1
+epoch=1
+pkgdesc="Stream based reader and writer library for COLLADA files"
+arch=(i686 x86_64)
+url="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCOLLADA"
+license=('GPL')
+depends=('libxml2' 'pcre')
+makedepends=('git' 'cmake')
+source=('opencollada.conf'
+        "git://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCOLLADA.git#tag=v${pkgver}"
+        'openCOLLADA-narrowing_gcc6.patch')
+md5sums=('5f7e9d79ab86756648b648ee5ed6ce1d'
+         'SKIP'
+         '1b1ee8b442ffdf2ff30f0877f43e07bc')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd "$srcdir"/OpenCOLLADA
+
+  patch -p1 -i ../openCOLLADA-narrowing_gcc6.patch
+}
+
+build() {
+  cd "$srcdir"/OpenCOLLADA
+
+  [[ -d build ]] && rm -r build
+  mkdir build && cd build
+
+  cmake .. \
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
+    -DUSE_SHARED=ON \
+    -DUSE_STATIC=OFF
+  make
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd "$srcdir"/OpenCOLLADA/build
+
+  make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install
+
+  install -Dm644 $srcdir/opencollada.conf $pkgdir/etc/ld.so.conf.d/opencollada.conf
+}
+
+# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
diff --git a/community/opencollada/openCOLLADA-narrowing_gcc6.patch b/community/opencollada/openCOLLADA-narrowing_gcc6.patch
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index 000000000..e805154e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/opencollada/openCOLLADA-narrowing_gcc6.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/COLLADABaseUtils/src/COLLADABUURI.cpp
++++ b/COLLADABaseUtils/src/COLLADABUURI.cpp
+@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ namespace COLLADABU
+ 
+ 
+ 
+-	const char HEX2DEC[256] = 
++	const signed char HEX2DEC[256] = 
+ 	{
+ 		/*       0  1  2  3   4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B   C  D  E  F */
+ 		/* 0 */ -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1,
diff --git a/community/opencollada/opencollada.conf b/community/opencollada/opencollada.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cd7c2a5c5
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+++ b/community/opencollada/opencollada.conf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/usr/lib/opencollada