diff --git a/tools/aapt/Android.mk b/tools/aapt/Android.mk
index 7934757..83c1068 100644
--- a/tools/aapt/Android.mk
+++ b/tools/aapt/Android.mk
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
     pseudolocalize.cpp \
     SourcePos.cpp \
     ZipEntry.cpp \
-    ZipFile.cpp
+    ZipFile.cpp \
+	qsort_r_compat.c
 
 LOCAL_PATH:= $(call my-dir)
 include $(CLEAR_VARS)
diff --git a/tools/aapt/StringPool.cpp b/tools/aapt/StringPool.cpp
index 839eda5..158b391 100644
--- a/tools/aapt/StringPool.cpp
+++ b/tools/aapt/StringPool.cpp
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 #include <utils/ByteOrder.h>
 #include <utils/SortedVector.h>
-#include <cutils/qsort_r_compat.h>
+#include "qsort_r_compat.h"
 
 #if HAVE_PRINTF_ZD
 #  define ZD "%zd"
diff --git a/tools/aapt/qsort_r_compat.c b/tools/aapt/qsort_r_compat.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a8dbe8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/aapt/qsort_r_compat.c
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include "qsort_r_compat.h"
+
+/*
+ * Note: This code is only used on the host, and is primarily here for
+ * Mac OS compatibility. Apparently, glibc and Apple's libc disagree on
+ * the parameter order for qsort_r.
+ */
+
+#if HAVE_BSD_QSORT_R
+
+/*
+ * BSD qsort_r parameter order is as we have defined here.
+ */
+
+void qsort_r_compat(void* base, size_t nel, size_t width, void* thunk,
+        int (*compar)(void*, const void* , const void*)) {
+    qsort_r(base, nel, width, thunk, compar);
+}
+
+#elif HAVE_GNU_QSORT_R
+
+/*
+ * GNU qsort_r parameter order places the thunk parameter last.
+ */
+
+struct compar_data {
+    void* thunk;
+    int (*compar)(void*, const void* , const void*);
+};
+
+static int compar_wrapper(const void* a, const void* b, void* data) {
+    struct compar_data* compar_data = (struct compar_data*)data;
+    return compar_data->compar(compar_data->thunk, a, b);
+}
+
+void qsort_r_compat(void* base, size_t nel, size_t width, void* thunk,
+        int (*compar)(void*, const void* , const void*)) {
+    struct compar_data compar_data;
+    compar_data.thunk = thunk;
+    compar_data.compar = compar;
+    qsort_r(base, nel, width, compar_wrapper, &compar_data);
+}
+
+#else
+
+/*
+ * Emulate qsort_r using thread local storage to access the thunk data.
+ */
+
+#include <cutils/threads.h>
+
+static thread_store_t compar_data_key = THREAD_STORE_INITIALIZER;
+
+struct compar_data {
+    void* thunk;
+    int (*compar)(void*, const void* , const void*);
+};
+
+static int compar_wrapper(const void* a, const void* b) {
+    struct compar_data* compar_data = (struct compar_data*)thread_store_get(&compar_data_key);
+    return compar_data->compar(compar_data->thunk, a, b);
+}
+
+void qsort_r_compat(void* base, size_t nel, size_t width, void* thunk,
+        int (*compar)(void*, const void* , const void*)) {
+    struct compar_data compar_data;
+    compar_data.thunk = thunk;
+    compar_data.compar = compar;
+    thread_store_set(&compar_data_key, &compar_data, NULL);
+    qsort(base, nel, width, compar_wrapper);
+}
+
+#endif
diff --git a/tools/aapt/qsort_r_compat.h b/tools/aapt/qsort_r_compat.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e14f999
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/aapt/qsort_r_compat.h
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Provides a portable version of qsort_r, called qsort_r_compat, which is a
+ * reentrant variant of qsort that passes a user data pointer to its comparator.
+ * This implementation follows the BSD parameter convention.
+ */
+
+#ifndef ___QSORT_R_COMPAT_H
+#define ___QSORT_R_COMPAT_H
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+void qsort_r_compat(void* base, size_t nel, size_t width, void* thunk,
+        int (*compar)(void*, const void* , const void* ));
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif // ___QSORT_R_COMPAT_H