diff --git a/community/zeroc-ice/PKGBUILD b/community/zeroc-ice/PKGBUILD
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+# Maintainer: Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>
+# Contributor: Joe George <joe at externl dot com>
+# Contributor: Daniel Spies <ds20150201aur at pskx dot net>
+# Contributor: Otto Allmendinger <otto.allmendinger@gmail.com>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - fix 32-bit lib packaging
+
+pkgname=(zeroc-ice zeroc-ice-java)
+pkgbase=(zeroc-ice)
+pkgver=3.7.2
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="An object-oriented middleware that provides RPC functionality"
+arch=(x86_64)
+url="https://zeroc.com"
+license=(GPL custom:ice)
+makedepends=(bzip2 gradle java-environment)
+depends=(mcpp lmdb)
+source=(
+    "ice-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+    "ice-packaging-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice-packaging/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+    zeroc-ice.sysusers
+)
+sha256sums=('e329a24abf94a4772a58a0fe61af4e707743a272c854552eef3d7833099f40f9'
+            '4a1aa0bfe3b2ec8ca9b834cbf3b1300fc48e25ccffe82a7a1b6d2f46644ba0bc'
+            '5fdbb1ed753e84e6b49c529e171af848e74a8890fe485dfe1d2bbec3c198dd90')
+
+_make_args=(
+    "OPTIMIZE=yes"
+    "USR_DIR_INSTALL=yes"
+    "prefix=/usr"
+    "CONFIGS=shared cpp11-shared"
+    "SKIP=slice2py"
+)
+
+build() {
+  cd ${srcdir}/ice-${pkgver}
+  make "${_make_args[@]}" "LANGUAGES=cpp java"
+}
+
+package_zeroc-ice() {
+  backup=("etc/glacier2router.conf"
+          "etc/icegridnode.conf"
+          "etc/icegridregistry.conf"
+  )
+
+  cd ${srcdir}/ice-${pkgver}
+
+  make install "${_make_args[@]}" DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" "LANGUAGES=cpp"
+  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/ice-${pkgver}/ICE_LICENSE ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE
+
+  rm -f ${pkgdir}/usr/share/Ice-${pkgver}/LICENSE
+  rm -f ${pkgdir}/usr/share/Ice-${pkgver}/ICE_LICENSE
+
+  if [ $CARCH = "x86_64" ]; then
+    rm -df ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/
+    mv ${pkgdir}/usr/lib64/ ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/
+  fi
+
+  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/ice-packaging-${pkgver}/ice/rpm/glacier2router.conf ${pkgdir}/etc/glacier2router.conf
+  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/ice-packaging-${pkgver}/ice/rpm/icegridnode.conf ${pkgdir}/etc/icegridnode.conf
+  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/ice-packaging-${pkgver}/ice/rpm/icegridregistry.conf ${pkgdir}/etc/icegridregistry.conf
+
+  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/ice-packaging-${pkgver}/ice/rpm/glacier2router.service \
+                 ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/glacier2router.service
+  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/ice-packaging-${pkgver}/ice/rpm/icegridnode.service \
+                 ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/icegridnode.service
+  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/ice-packaging-${pkgver}/ice/rpm/icegridregistry.service \
+                 ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/icegridregistry.service
+
+  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/var/lib/ice/icegrid/{node1,registry}
+  chown -R 101:101 ${pkgdir}/var/lib/ice
+
+  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/zeroc-ice.sysusers ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/$pkgname.conf
+}
+
+package_zeroc-ice-java() {
+  makedepends=(gradle 'java-environment=8')
+  depends=(zeroc-ice java-environment)
+
+  cd ${srcdir}/ice-${pkgver}
+
+  export GRADLE_USER_HOME=/tmp
+  make install "${_make_args[@]}" DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" "LANGUAGES=java"
+
+  rm -rf "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/ice
+}
diff --git a/community/zeroc-ice/zeroc-ice.sysusers b/community/zeroc-ice/zeroc-ice.sysusers
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+u ice 101 "Ice User" /var/lib/ice