diff --git a/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/patches/svutil-sys_select_h.patch b/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/patches/svutil-sys_select_h.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2dceb83f7ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/patches/svutil-sys_select_h.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Add include required to build with muslc libc
+
+--- viewer/svutil.cpp	2012-03-03 12:53:33.000000000 +0100
++++ viewer/svutil.cpp	2015-05-28 17:51:46.917525843 +0200
+@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <netdb.h>
+ #include <sys/socket.h>
++#include <sys/select.h>
+ #ifdef __linux__
+ #include <sys/prctl.h>
+ #endif