diff --git a/libapr.yaml b/libapr.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1cd379370c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libapr.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+package:
+  name: libapr
+  version: 1.7.4
+  epoch: 0
+  description: "Apache Portable Runtime Library (APR)"
+  copyright:
+    - license: Apache-2.0
+
+environment:
+  contents:
+    packages:
+      - wolfi-base
+      - busybox
+      - ca-certificates-bundle
+      - build-base
+      - elfutils-dev
+      - linux-headers
+      - zstd-dev
+      - zlib-dev
+      - automake
+      - autoconf
+      - python3
+      - libtool
+
+pipeline:
+  - uses: git-checkout
+    with:
+      repository: https://github.com/apache/apr
+      tag: ${{package.version}}
+      expected-commit: 22867ddac49b7dcf356556577461231acdff6445
+
+  - uses: patch
+    with:
+      patches: apr-1.7.2-autoconf-2.72.patch
+
+  - runs: |
+      ./buildconf
+
+  - uses: autoconf/configure
+    with:
+      opts: |
+        --prefix=/usr \
+        --libdir=/usr/lib
+
+  - uses: autoconf/make
+
+  - uses: autoconf/make-install
+
+  - runs: |
+      mkdir -p "${{targets.destdir}}"/usr/share/
+      mv "${{targets.destdir}}"/usr/build-1 "${{targets.destdir}}"/usr/share/
+
+  - uses: strip
+
+subpackages:
+  - name: "libapr-dev"
+    description: "headers for libapr"
+    pipeline:
+      - uses: split/dev
+    dependencies:
+      runtime:
+        - libapr
+
+update:
+  enabled: false
+  github:
+    identifier: apache/apr
+    use-tag: true
diff --git a/libapr/apr-1.7.2-autoconf-2.72.patch b/libapr/apr-1.7.2-autoconf-2.72.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..689e2fa082d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libapr/apr-1.7.2-autoconf-2.72.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/apr/raw/rawhide/f/apr-1.7.2-autoconf.patch
+
+Similar to https://github.com/apache/apr/commit/a15958a37a06f71c42c690278f9c958b93b7ee20.
+--- a/build/apr_common.m4
++++ b/build/apr_common.m4
+@@ -468,15 +468,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([APR_TRY_COMPILE_NO_WARNING],
+  fi
+  AC_COMPILE_IFELSE(
+   [AC_LANG_SOURCE(
+-   [
+-#ifndef PACKAGE_NAME
+-#include "confdefs.h"
+-#endif
+-   ]
+-   [[$1]]
+-   [int main(int argc, const char *const *argv) {]
++   [[$1]],
+    [[$2]]
+-   [   return 0; }]
+   )], [CFLAGS=$apr_save_CFLAGS
+ $3],  [CFLAGS=$apr_save_CFLAGS
+ $4])
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diff --git a/packages.txt b/packages.txt
index 376aef2eb30..dbc269a8a3b 100644
--- a/packages.txt
+++ b/packages.txt
@@ -714,3 +714,4 @@ newrelic-prometheus-configurator
 prometheus-nats-exporter
 docker-credential-gcr
 kyverno
+libapr