diff --git a/etc/config.cache b/etc/config.cache
index 2910ce7..f1519a6 100644
--- a/etc/config.cache
+++ b/etc/config.cache
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+# apr
+ac_cv_file__dev_zero=yes
+ac_cv_func_setpgrp_void=yes
+ac_cv_sizeof_struct_iovec=16
+ap_cv_void_ptr_lt_long=no
+apr_cv_process_shared_works=no
+apr_cv_tcp_nodelay_with_cork=no
+
 # autoconf
 ac_cv_buggy_getaddrinfo=no
 ac_cv_func_calloc_0_nonnull=yes
diff --git a/patches/apr-1.5.2.local.patch b/patches/apr-1.5.2.local.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..073e062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/apr-1.5.2.local.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+diff -ru --new-file apr-1.5.2.orig/include/private/apr_escape_test_char.h apr-1.5.2/include/private/apr_escape_test_char.h
+--- apr-1.5.2.orig/include/private/apr_escape_test_char.h	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
++++ apr-1.5.2/include/private/apr_escape_test_char.h	2017-01-26 04:54:14.025668783 +0100
+@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
++/* generated natively */
++#define T_ESCAPE_SHELL_CMD     (1)
++#define T_ESCAPE_PATH_SEGMENT  (2)
++#define T_OS_ESCAPE_PATH       (4)
++#define T_ESCAPE_ECHO          (8)
++#define T_ESCAPE_URLENCODED    (16)
++#define T_ESCAPE_XML           (32)
++
++static const unsigned char test_char_table[256] = {
++    32,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,31,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,
++    30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,6,16,63,22,17,22,49,17,
++    17,17,1,16,16,0,0,18,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16,23,
++    55,16,55,23,16,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
++    0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,23,31,23,23,0,23,0,0,0,
++    0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
++    0,0,0,23,23,23,17,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,
++    30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,
++    30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,
++    30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,
++    30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,
++    30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,
++    30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30 
++};
+diff -ru --new-file apr-1.5.2.orig/Makefile.in apr-1.5.2/Makefile.in
+--- apr-1.5.2.orig/Makefile.in	2014-04-25 12:51:11.000000000 +0200
++++ apr-1.5.2/Makefile.in	2017-01-26 04:51:55.981668783 +0100
+@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@
+ 
+ CLEAN_TARGETS = apr-config.out apr.exp exports.c export_vars.c .make.dirs \
+ 	build/apr_rules.out tools/gen_test_char@EXEEXT@ \
+-	tools/gen_test_char.o tools/gen_test_char.lo \
+-	include/private/apr_escape_test_char.h
++	tools/gen_test_char.o tools/gen_test_char.lo
+ DISTCLEAN_TARGETS = config.cache config.log config.status \
+ 	include/apr.h include/arch/unix/apr_private.h \
+ 	libtool $(APR_CONFIG) build/apr_rules.mk apr.pc \
+@@ -129,18 +128,6 @@
+ etags:
+ 	etags `find . -name '*.[ch]'`
+ 
+-OBJECTS_gen_test_char = tools/gen_test_char.lo $(LOCAL_LIBS)
+-tools/gen_test_char.lo: tools/gen_test_char.c
+-	$(APR_MKDIR) tools
+-	$(LT_COMPILE)
+-
+-tools/gen_test_char@EXEEXT@: $(OBJECTS_gen_test_char)
+-	$(LINK_PROG) $(OBJECTS_gen_test_char) $(ALL_LIBS)
+-
+-include/private/apr_escape_test_char.h: tools/gen_test_char@EXEEXT@
+-	$(APR_MKDIR) include/private
+-	tools/gen_test_char@EXEEXT@ > $@
+-
+ LINK_PROG = $(LIBTOOL) $(LTFLAGS) --mode=link $(COMPILE) $(LT_LDFLAGS) \
+ 	    @LT_NO_INSTALL@ $(ALL_LDFLAGS) -o $@
+ 
+diff -ru apr-1.5.2.orig/network_io/unix/sendrecv.c apr-1.5.2/network_io/unix/sendrecv.c
+--- apr-1.5.2.orig/network_io/unix/sendrecv.c	2013-10-21 13:57:36.000000000 +0200
++++ apr-1.5.2/network_io/unix/sendrecv.c	2017-02-02 00:52:39.903022000 +0100
+@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
+ /* Define a structure to pass in when we have a NULL header value */
+ static apr_hdtr_t no_hdtr;
+ 
+-#if (defined(__linux__) || defined(__GNU__)) && defined(HAVE_WRITEV)
++#if (defined(__linux__) || defined(__GNU__)) || defined(__midipix__) && defined(HAVE_WRITEV)
+ 
+ apr_status_t apr_socket_sendfile(apr_socket_t *sock, apr_file_t *file,
+                                  apr_hdtr_t *hdtr, apr_off_t *offset,
diff --git a/vars/build.vars b/vars/build.vars
index 3372bb2..0bd25f8 100644
--- a/vars/build.vars
+++ b/vars/build.vars
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ LIB_PACKAGES_CONFIGURE_ARGS="-C --disable-nls --host=${TARGET} --prefix= --targe
 LIB_PACKAGES_LDFLAGS_CONFIGURE="--sysroot=${PREFIX_NATIVE}";
 LIB_PACKAGES_MAKEFLAGS_INSTALL="DESTDIR=${PREFIX_NATIVE}";
 LIB_PACKAGES_PACKAGES_LEAVES="
-bzip2 curl expat libz libffi gdbm pcre glib gzip libarchive libatomic_ops libpipeline
+apr bzip2 curl expat libz libffi gdbm pcre glib gzip libarchive libatomic_ops libpipeline
 libressl libevent libfetch libgpg_error libassuan libfirm libgcrypt libksba lua ncurses
 ncursestw ncursesw npth sqlite3 xz";
 LIB_PACKAGES_PACKAGES_X11="
@@ -268,6 +268,9 @@ LIB_PACKAGES_PACKAGES="
 	${LIB_PACKAGES_PACKAGES_X11}
 	${LIB_PACKAGES_PACKAGES_LIBS}";
 LIB_PACKAGES_PREFIX="${PREFIX_NATIVE}";
+: ${PKG_APR_SHA256SUM:=7d03ed29c22a7152be45b8e50431063736df9e1daa1ddf93f6a547ba7a28f67a};
+: ${PKG_APR_VERSION:=1.5.2};
+: ${PKG_APR_URL:=http://mirror.yannic-bonenberger.com/apache//apr/apr-${PKG_APR_VERSION}.tar.bz2};
 : ${PKG_BZIP2_SHA256SUM:=a2848f34fcd5d6cf47def00461fcb528a0484d8edef8208d6d2e2909dc61d9cd};
 : ${PKG_BZIP2_VERSION:=1.0.6};
 : ${PKG_BZIP2_URL:=http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-${PKG_BZIP2_VERSION}.tar.gz};