diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index d6babe344..e55fe16f3 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ if !BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_HIDE_OTHERS
 source "package/less/Config.in"
 endif
 source "package/libconfig/Config.in"
+source "package/libconfuse/Config.in"
 source "package/libdaemon/Config.in"
 source "package/libelf/Config.in"
 source "package/libevent/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/libconfuse/Config.in b/package/libconfuse/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e123dab48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libconfuse/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCONFUSE
+	bool "libconfuse"
+	help
+	  LibConfuse is a configuration file parser library written in
+	  C. It supports sections and (lists of) values (strings,
+	  integers, floats, booleans or other sections), as well as some
+	  other features (such as single/double-quoted strings,
+	  environment variable expansion, functions and nested include
+	  statements.
+
+	  http://www.nongnu.org/confuse/
diff --git a/package/libconfuse/libconfuse.mk b/package/libconfuse/libconfuse.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f6220dbfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libconfuse/libconfuse.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#############################################################
+#
+# libconfuse
+#
+#############################################################
+LIBCONFUSE_VERSION:=2.6
+LIBCONFUSE_SOURCE:=confuse-$(LIBCONFUSE_VERSION).tar.gz
+LIBCONFUSE_SITE:=http://bzero.se/confuse/
+LIBCONFUSE_AUTORECONF:=NO
+LIBCONFUSE_INSTALL_STAGING:=YES
+LIBCONFUSE_INSTALL_TARGET:=YES
+LIBCONFUSE_INSTALL_TARGET_OPT:=DESTDIR=$(TARGET_DIR) install-strip
+
+LIBCONFUSE_CONF_OPT:=--enable-shared --disable-rpath $(DISABLE_NLS)
+
+LIBCONFUSE_DEPENDENCIES = uclibc
+
+$(eval $(call AUTOTARGETS,package,libconfuse))