diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/files/ldflags.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/files/ldflags.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..534d280
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/files/ldflags.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- pigz-2.2.4/Makefile.orig	2012-01-01 02:46:58.000000000 +0100
++++ pigz-2.2.4/Makefile	2012-03-09 08:47:40.025094863 +0100
+@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
+ CFLAGS=-O3 -Wall -Wextra
+ 
+ pigz: pigz.o yarn.o
+-	$(CC) -o pigz pigz.o yarn.o -lpthread -lz
++	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o pigz pigz.o yarn.o -lpthread -lz
+ 	ln -f pigz unpigz
+ 
+ pigz.o: pigz.c yarn.h
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b501d7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+SUMMARY = "A parallel implementation of gzip"
+DESCRIPTION = "pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a \
+fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and \
+multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data. pigz was written by Mark \
+Adler, and uses the zlib and pthread libraries."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://zlib.net/pigz/"
+SECTION = "console/utils"
+LICENSE = "Zlib"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://zlib.net/pigz/pigz-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://ldflags.patch"
+
+PROVIDES += "gzip-native"
+
+DEPENDS_virtclass-native = "zlib-native"
+
+do_install () {
+        install -d ${D}${bindir}
+        install ${B}/pigz ${D}${bindir}/gzip
+        install ${B}/unpigz ${D}${bindir}/gunzip
+}
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz_2.2.4.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz_2.2.4.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..598bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz_2.2.4.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+require pigz.inc
+
+PR = "r0"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "9df2a3c742524446fa4e797c17e8fd85"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7e7967c47f66c07be97cbfa25c8816b72f9d35258466ea31eddc7666c914160e"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://pigz.c;md5=53f47c097bbf11b937a421b1816a8dc5"