diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-apps/mawk/files/mawk-1.3.4-cross-compile.patch b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-apps/mawk/files/mawk-1.3.4-cross-compile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..104bb46d24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-apps/mawk/files/mawk-1.3.4-cross-compile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- a/Makefile.in
++++ b/Makefile.in
+@@ -104,8 +104,9 @@
+ 	-@rm -f $@
+ 	notangle -R'"array.h"' array.w | $(NOIDENT) | cpif array.h
+ 
++BUILD_CC ?= gcc
+ scancode.c :  $(srcdir)/makescan.c  scancode.h nstd.h config.h
+-	@ECHO_LD@$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o makescan.exe $(srcdir)/makescan.c
++	@ECHO_LD@$(BUILD_CC) $(BUILD_CFLAGS) $(BUILD_CPPFLAGS) -o makescan.exe $(srcdir)/makescan.c
+ 	rm -f scancode.c
+ 	./makescan.exe > scancode.c
+ 	rm makescan.exe
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-apps/mawk/mawk-1.3.4_p20100625.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-apps/mawk/mawk-1.3.4_p20100625.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..36ced365ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-apps/mawk/mawk-1.3.4_p20100625.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/mawk/mawk-1.3.4_p20100625.ebuild,v 1.2 2011/10/20 15:04:10 vapier Exp $
+
+EAPI="2"
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs eutils
+
+MY_P=${P/_p/-}
+DESCRIPTION="an (often faster than gawk) awk-interpreter"
+HOMEPAGE="http://invisible-island.net/mawk/mawk.html"
+SRC_URI="ftp://invisible-island.net/mawk/${MY_P}.tgz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x86-macos"
+IUSE=""
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.3.4-cross-compile.patch
+	tc-export BUILD_CC
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake install DESTDIR="${D}" || die
+	dodoc ACKNOWLEDGMENT CHANGES INSTALL README
+
+	exeinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+	doexe examples/*  # avoid compression of dodoc + make executable
+}