diff --git a/pkgbuild/ruby-xapian-full/PKGBUILD b/pkgbuild/ruby-xapian-full/PKGBUILD
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+++ b/pkgbuild/ruby-xapian-full/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Maintainer: Cedric Girard <girard.cedric@gmail.com>
+# Contributor: David Campbell <davekong@archlinux.us>
+pkgname=ruby-xapian-full
+pkgver=1.2.3
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc="Xapian bindings for Ruby without dependency on system Xapian library"
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+url="http://xapian.org"
+license=('GPL')
+depends=('ruby' 'util-linux')
+makedepends=('rubygems')
+provides=('xapian-ruby-bindings')
+conflicts=('xapian-ruby-bindings')
+source=("http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/xapian-full-${pkgver}.gem" "Rakefile.patch")
+noextract=("xapian-full-${pkgver}.gem")
+md5sums=('772947e9b6a03f37a00c361ac7492ad6'
+         '3c88149fb08d46bcd1e49148afdd1384')
+options=('!makeflags' '!libtool')
+
+build() {
+  cd $srcdir
+  local _gemdir="$(ruby -rubygems -e'puts Gem.default_dir')"
+
+  #patch Rakefile
+  echo "Patching Rakefile ..."
+  gem unpack xapian-full-${pkgver}.gem
+  rm xapian-full-${pkgver}.gem
+  cd xapian-full-${pkgver}
+  patch -p1 < ../Rakefile.patch
+  
+  echo "Building gem..."
+  gem build xapian-full.gemspec
+  mv xapian-full-${pkgver}.gem ..
+  cd ..
+  rm -rf xapian-full-${pkgver}
+  
+  echo "Installing gem..."
+  gem install --ignore-dependencies --verbose -i "$pkgdir$_gemdir" xapian-full-$pkgver.gem \
+  -n "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
+}
+
+# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
diff --git a/pkgbuild/ruby-xapian-full/Rakefile.patch b/pkgbuild/ruby-xapian-full/Rakefile.patch
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@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur xapian-full-1.2.3/Rakefile xapian-full-1.2.3.patched//Rakefile
+--- xapian-full-1.2.3/Rakefile	2011-05-04 14:45:59.310439173 +0200
++++ xapian-full-1.2.3.patched//Rakefile	2011-05-04 14:46:45.980156801 +0200
+@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
+ 	end
+ 
+ 	prefix = Dir.pwd
+-	ENV['LDFLAGS'] = "-R#{prefix}/lib"
++	ENV['LDFLAGS'] = "-L#{prefix}/lib"
+ 
+ 	system! "mkdir -p lib"
+