diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/npth/npth/pkgconfig.patch b/meta/recipes-support/npth/npth/pkgconfig.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6a12e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/npth/npth/pkgconfig.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+Added npth pkgconfig file
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
+
+Index: npth-1.1/src/npth.pc.in
+===================================================================
+--- /dev/null
++++ npth-1.1/src/npth.pc.in
+@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
++prefix=@prefix@
++exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
++libdir=@libdir@
++includedir=@includedir@
++
++Name: npth
++Description: a new portable posix threading library
++Version: @VERSION@
++Libs: -L${libdir} -lnpth -lpthread
++Cflags: -I${includedir}
+Index: npth-1.1/src/Makefile.am
+===================================================================
+--- npth-1.1.orig/src/Makefile.am
++++ npth-1.1/src/Makefile.am
+@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@
+ # License along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ 
+ ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in
++pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
++pkgconfig_DATA = npth.pc
+ 
+-EXTRA_DIST = libnpth.vers
++EXTRA_DIST = libnpth.vers npth.pc
+ #	     versioninfo.rc.in
+ nodist_include_HEADERS = npth.h
+ 
+Index: npth-1.1/configure.ac
+===================================================================
+--- npth-1.1.orig/configure.ac
++++ npth-1.1/configure.ac
+@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ src/Makefile
+ w32/Makefile
+ tests/Makefile])
+ AC_CONFIG_FILES(npth-config, chmod +x npth-config)
++AC_CONFIG_FILES([src/npth.pc])
+ AC_OUTPUT
+ 
+ echo "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/npth/npth_1.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/npth/npth_1.2.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b3962e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/npth/npth_1.2.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+SUMMARY = "New GNU Portable Threads library"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnupg.org/software/pth/"
+SECTION = "libs"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv3+ & GPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
+    file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe\
+    file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=6a6a8e020838b23406c81b19c1d46df6\
+    "
+SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/npth/npth-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
+           file://pkgconfig.patch \
+          "
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "226bac7374b9466c6ec26b1c34dab844"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "6ddbdddb2cf49a4723f9d1ad6563c480d6760dcb63cb7726b8fc3bc2e1b6c08a"
+
+BINCONFIG = "${bindir}/npth-config"
+
+inherit autotools binconfig-disabled
+
+FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/libnpth.so.*"
+FILES_${PN}-dev += "${bindir}/npth-config"