diff --git a/core/libtool/PKGBUILD b/core/libtool/PKGBUILD
index 1c755fe4d..bdc260bab 100644
--- a/core/libtool/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/libtool/PKGBUILD
@@ -18,11 +18,14 @@ url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool"
 makedepends=('gcc=4.8.1')
 license=('GPL')
 options=('!libtool' '!distcc')
-source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz{,.sig})
+source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz{,.sig}
+         armv7h-nopic.patch)
 md5sums=('2ec8997e0c07249eb4cbd072417d70fe'
-         '1e6ba57420c82c663c85e745d11c7eed')
+         '1e6ba57420c82c663c85e745d11c7eed'
+         '7ba2180372dc52d4bfb31a9bafead630')
 
 build() {
+  [[ $CARCH == "armv7h" ]] && patch -p0 -i ${srcdir}/armv7h-nopic.patch
   cd ${srcdir}/${pkgbase}-${pkgver}
   ./configure --prefix=/usr
   make
@@ -53,3 +56,4 @@ package_libltdl() {
                          install-ltdlincludeHEADERS install-data-local
   rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share/{aclocal,libtool/config}
 }
+
diff --git a/core/libtool/armv7h-nopic.patch b/core/libtool/armv7h-nopic.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..713aa24b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/libtool/armv7h-nopic.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- libtool-2.4.2/tests/demo-nopic.test.orig	2013-10-10 10:55:49.686651787 -0500
++++ libtool-2.4.2/tests/demo-nopic.test	2013-10-10 05:45:45.027421384 -0500
+@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
+ . tests/defs || exit 1
+ 
+ case "$host" in
+-hppa*|x86_64*|s390*)
++hppa*|x86_64*|s390*|arm*)
+ 	func_skip "$host doesn't like non-PIC shared libs"
+ 	;;
+ *-solaris*|*-sunos*)