diff --git a/community/python-pytables/PKGBUILD b/community/python-pytables/PKGBUILD
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+# $Id$
+# Maintainer: Andrzej Giniewicz <gginiu@gmail.com>
+# Contributor: Sebastien Binet <binet@cern.ch>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - upstream patch to fix AArch64 build
+
+pkgbase=python-pytables
+pkgname=('python2-pytables' 'python-pytables')
+pkgver=3.3.0
+pkgrel=2
+arch=("i686" "x86_64")
+pkgdesc="A package for managing hierarchical datasets and designed to efficiently and easily cope with extremely large amounts of data"
+url="http://www.pytables.org"
+license=("BSD")
+makedepends=('lzo' 'hdf5_18' 'python2-numexpr' 'python-numexpr' 'python-setuptools' 'python2-setuptools' 'cython' 'cython2' 'blosc' 'bzip2' 'lzo')
+source=("https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+        "hdf5_18.patch"
+        'https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/commit/314b5a0170ecf3c6d46392b16b8f675791baa206.patch')
+md5sums=('056c161ae0fd2d6e585b766adacf3b0b'
+         '6cca19b6ce2eb9f84d18888ad2c1a3b4'
+         '2d4edfdeb35940c5a9e279295f25535c')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd "$srcdir"/PyTables-$pkgver
+
+  # -march=native generates AVX instructions if the host supports it, which
+  # then results in "SIGILL (Illegal instruction)" on machines lacking AVX
+  # https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/issues/458
+  # https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/pull/503
+  sed -i 's/"-march=native",\?//' setup.py
+
+  # force hdf5_18 location
+  patch -Np0 -i "$srcdir"/hdf5_18.patch
+  
+  patch -p1 -i ../314b5a0170ecf3c6d46392b16b8f675791baa206.patch
+
+  cd "${srcdir}" 
+  cp -a PyTables-$pkgver PyTables-py2-$pkgver
+}
+
+build() {
+  msg "Building Python2"
+  cd "$srcdir"/PyTables-py2-$pkgver
+  HDF5_DIR=/usr/include/hdf5_18 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/hdf5_18 python2 setup.py build --blosc=/usr
+
+  msg "Building Python3"
+  cd "$srcdir"/PyTables-$pkgver
+  HDF5_DIR=/usr/include/hdf5_18 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/hdf5_18 python setup.py build --blosc=/usr
+}
+
+package_python2-pytables() {
+  depends=('lzo' 'hdf5_18' 'python2-numexpr' 'blosc')
+
+  cd "$srcdir"/PyTables-py2-${pkgver}
+  python2 setup.py install --skip-build --prefix=/usr --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1
+
+  install -Dm644 LICENSE.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
+
+  # see FS#36015 and FS#44971
+  mv "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/pt2to3{,-2.7}
+  mv "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/ptdump{,-2.7}
+  mv "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/ptrepack{,-2.7}
+  mv "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/pttree{,-2.7}
+
+  # see FS#45975
+  _site_packages=`python2 -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())"`
+  chmod a+rx "${pkgdir}${_site_packages}"/*.egg-info
+  chmod a+r "${pkgdir}${_site_packages}"/*.egg-info/*
+}
+
+package_python-pytables() {
+  depends=('lzo' 'hdf5_18' 'python-numexpr' 'blosc')
+
+  cd "$srcdir"/PyTables-${pkgver}
+  python setup.py install --skip-build --prefix=/usr --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1
+
+  install -Dm644 LICENSE.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
+
+  # see FS#45975
+  _site_packages=`python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())"`
+  chmod a+rx "${pkgdir}${_site_packages}"/*.egg-info
+  chmod a+r "${pkgdir}${_site_packages}"/*.egg-info/*
+}
+
diff --git a/community/python-pytables/hdf5_18.patch b/community/python-pytables/hdf5_18.patch
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index 000000000..64a0e7e13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/python-pytables/hdf5_18.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- setup.py.old	2016-05-24 13:16:36.129769271 +0200
++++ setup.py	2016-05-24 13:17:07.380243229 +0200
+@@ -552,6 +552,11 @@
+         libdir = compiler.has_function(package.target_function,
+                                        libraries=(package.library_name,))
+ 
++    # force location of hdf5_18
++    if package==hdf5_package:
++        hdrdir = '/usr/include/hdf5_18'
++        libdir = '/usr/lib/hdf5_18'    
++
+     if not (hdrdir and libdir):
+         if package.tag in ['HDF5']:  # these are compulsory!
+             pname, ptag = package.name, package.tag