diff --git a/core/libsecret/0001-Fix-for-building-without-valgrind.patch b/core/libsecret/0001-Fix-for-building-without-valgrind.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..50f628c8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/libsecret/0001-Fix-for-building-without-valgrind.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 0fc0d0059e0b8c1548da797d4996e20427295401 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 20:05:09 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix for building without valgrind
+
+---
+ egg/egg-testing.c | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/egg/egg-testing.c b/egg/egg-testing.c
+index 561e16a..85da119 100644
+--- a/egg/egg-testing.c
++++ b/egg/egg-testing.c
+@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@
+ 
+ #include <glib-object.h>
+ 
++#ifdef WITH_VALGRIND
+ #include <valgrind/valgrind.h>
++#endif
+ 
+ #include <glib.h>
+ #include <glib/gstdio.h>
+-- 
+2.21.0
+
diff --git a/core/libsecret/PKGBUILD b/core/libsecret/PKGBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..25640ac3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/libsecret/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Maintainer: Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - remove makedepend on valgrind
+#  - patch to fix building without valgrind
+
+pkgname=libsecret
+pkgver=0.18.8
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc="Library for storing and retrieving passwords and other secrets"
+url="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libsecret"
+arch=(x86_64)
+license=(LGPL)
+depends=(glib2 libgcrypt)
+checkdepends=(python-dbus dbus-glib python-gobject gjs)
+makedepends=(docbook-xsl gobject-introspection vala git gtk-doc meson)
+optdepends=('gnome-keyring: key storage service, or use any other service implementing org.freedesktop.secrets')
+_commit=b5442654d483e959ac9ecd3a3fb9eebc8d9d8399  # tags/0.18.8^0
+source=("git+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsecret.git#commit=$_commit"
+        '0001-Fix-for-building-without-valgrind.patch')
+sha256sums=('SKIP'
+            '0dfdbe7bbccc388f7d76ac951c344aeec01f30e07fb64c3274d1b907c6b06ee8')
+
+pkgver() {
+  cd $pkgname
+  git describe --tags | sed 's/-/+/g'
+}
+
+prepare() {
+  cd $pkgname
+  patch -p1 -i ../0001-Fix-for-building-without-valgrind.patch
+}
+
+build() {
+  CFLAGS+=" -DHAVE_MLOCK"  # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsecret/issues/23
+  arch-meson $pkgname build
+  ninja -C build
+}
+
+check() {
+  dbus-run-session meson test -C build
+}
+
+package() {
+  DESTDIR="$pkgdir" meson install -C build
+}
+
+# vim:set sw=2 et: