diff --git a/testing/gnucobol/0001-move-packed-decimal.patch b/testing/gnucobol/0001-move-packed-decimal.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d5251172ad7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/gnucobol/0001-move-packed-decimal.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+See also:
+
+* https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/bugs/904/
+
+diff -ur a/gnucobol-3.2/libcob/numeric.c b/gnucobol-3.2/libcob/numeric.c
+--- a/libcob/numeric.c	2023-08-18 01:07:41.324059298 +0000
++++ b/libcob/numeric.c	2023-08-18 01:31:31.294137417 +0000
+@@ -2739,17 +2739,12 @@
+ 		}
+ 	} else {
+ 		unsigned char *pos = fld2 + fld2_size - 1;
+-		if (COB_FIELD_HAVE_SIGN (f2)) {
+-			if (!fld1_sign) {
+-				*pos &= 0xF0;
+-				*pos |= 0x0C;
+-			} else {
+-				*pos &= 0xF0;
+-				*pos |= fld1_sign;
+-			}
+-		} else {
+-			*pos &= 0xF0;
++		if (!COB_FIELD_HAVE_SIGN (f2)) {
+ 			*pos |= 0x0F;
++		} else if (fld1_sign == 0x0D) {
++			*pos = (*pos & 0xF0) | 0x0D;
++		} else {
++			*pos = (*pos & 0xF0) | 0x0C;
+ 		}
+ 		if (!(COB_FIELD_DIGITS (f2) & 1) /* -> digits % 2 == 0 */) {
+ 			*fld2 &= 0x0F;
diff --git a/testing/gnucobol/0002-errno.patch b/testing/gnucobol/0002-errno.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9681907335f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/gnucobol/0002-errno.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+See also:
+
+* https://git.adelielinux.org/adelie/packages/-/issues/1045#note_13472
+
+--- a/cobc/cobc.c.gc32	Sat Jul 22 17:01:52 2023
++++ b/cobc/cobc.c	Thu Aug 17 23:01:33 2023
+@@ -2358,6 +2358,10 @@
+ DECLNORET static void COB_A_NORETURN
+ cobc_terminate (const char *str)
+ {
++	/* must be executed before anything that may adjust errno, ...
++	   like the listing code below. */
++	const char *errno_str = cb_get_strerror ();
++
+ 	if (cb_src_list_file) {
+ 		set_listing_date ();
+ 		set_standard_title ();
+@@ -2365,7 +2369,7 @@
+ 		cobc_elided_strcpy (cb_listing_filename, str, sizeof (cb_listing_filename), 0);
+ 		print_program_header ();
+ 	}
+-	cb_perror (0, "cobc: %s: %s", str, cb_get_strerror ());
++	cb_perror (0, "cobc: %s: %s", str, errno_str);
+ 	if (cb_src_list_file) {
+ 		print_program_trailer ();
+ 	}
diff --git a/testing/gnucobol/0003-fix-libxml-include.patch b/testing/gnucobol/0003-fix-libxml-include.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a93dd64542b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/gnucobol/0003-fix-libxml-include.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+libcob: Fix include for xmlCleanupParser
+
+common.c uses xmlCleanupParser, which is defined in libxml/parser.h.
+---
+
+--- a/libcob/common.c	2025-01-01 03:03:49.762316279 +0100
++++ b/libcob/common.c	2025-01-01 03:01:56.632597306 +0100
+@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@
+ #if defined (WITH_XML2)
+ #include <libxml/xmlversion.h>
+ #include <libxml/xmlwriter.h>
++#include <libxml/parser.h>
+ #endif
+ 
+ #if defined (WITH_CJSON)
diff --git a/testing/gnucobol/APKBUILD b/testing/gnucobol/APKBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..516b345108c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/gnucobol/APKBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+# Contributor: J. Neuschäfer <j.ne@posteo.net>
+# Maintainer: J. Neuschäfer <j.ne@posteo.net>
+pkgname=gnucobol
+pkgver=3.2
+pkgrel=0
+pkgdesc="GnuCOBOL compiler"
+url="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/"
+# s390x: disabled due to test failures
+arch="all !s390x"
+license="GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND GFDL-1.3"
+# The generated C code may use GMP and libc headers.
+depends="gcc gmp-dev musl-dev"
+# Other libraries are only used for building libcob.
+makedepends="diffutils db-dev gettext-dev libxml2-dev cjson-dev ncurses-dev"
+subpackages="
+	$pkgname-doc
+	$pkgname-lang
+	libcob4
+	"
+source="https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnucobol/gnucobol/$pkgver/gnucobol-$pkgver.tar.lz
+	https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnucobol/nist/newcob.val.tar.gz
+	0001-move-packed-decimal.patch
+	0002-errno.patch
+	0003-fix-libxml-include.patch"
+
+case "$CARCH" in
+	# As of gnucobol 3.2 and db 5.2.28, ORGANIZATION INDEXED (using db)
+	# is broken on x86.
+	x86) _db="--without-db" ;;
+	*)   _db="--with-db" ;;
+esac
+
+prepare() {
+	default_prepare
+
+	# Move NIST test suite where "make checkall" will find it
+	mv "$srcdir/newcob.val" "$builddir/tests/cobol85/"
+}
+
+build() {
+	# FIXME: C23 is WIP (https://github.com/OCamlPro/gnucobol/pull/229)
+	CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -std=gnu17" \
+	./configure \
+		--build=$CBUILD \
+		--host=$CHOST \
+		--prefix=/usr \
+		--sysconfdir=/etc \
+		--mandir=/usr/share/man \
+		--localstatedir=/var \
+		--with-xml2 \
+		--with-json \
+		--with-curses \
+		"$_db"
+	make
+}
+
+check() {
+	# This test fails on musl-libc because it expects dlclose to unload
+	# shared libraries.
+	_exclude="!CALL with directory"
+
+	# These tests fail in abuild rootbld because there's no tty available.
+	_exclude="$_exclude,!ON EXCEPTION clause of DISPLAY"
+	_exclude="$_exclude,!EC-SCREEN-LINE-NUMBER and -STARTING-COLUMN"
+	_exclude="$_exclude,!LINE/COLUMN 0 exceptions"
+
+	make checkall TESTSUITEFLAGS="--jobs=$JOBS -k \"$_exclude\"" || \
+		make check TESTSUITEFLAGS="--recheck --verbose"
+}
+
+package() {
+	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+}
+
+libcob4() {
+	pkgdesc="GnuCOBOL runtime library"
+	depends=
+
+	amove usr/lib/libcob.so.4*
+	amove usr/lib/gnucobol/
+	amove usr/share/gnucobol/config/runtime*.cfg
+	amove usr/share/gnucobol/config/*.ttbl
+}
+
+sha512sums="
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+"