diff --git a/dev-libs/libxr/libxr-1.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-libs/libxr/libxr-1.0-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b67330f444000
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libxr/libxr-1.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+
+DESCRIPTION="Cross-platform XML-RPC client/server library written in C"
+HOMEPAGE="http://oss.zonio.net/libxr.htm"
+SRC_URI="http://oss.zonio.net/releases/libxr/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86"
+IUSE="libressl"
+# IUSE="json"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-2.12
+	 >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.20
+	!libressl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0= )
+	libressl? ( dev-libs/libressl:0= )"
+#	json? ( >=dev-libs/json-c-0.3 )"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+		dev-util/re2c
+		virtual/pkgconfig"
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf --without-json
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libxr/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libxr/metadata.xml
index 097975e3adc26..6f49eba8f4969 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libxr/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/libxr/metadata.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
+<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 </pkgmetadata>