diff --git a/package/diffutils/0004-sigsegv-Fix-compilation-error-on-arceb-CPUs.patch b/package/diffutils/0004-sigsegv-Fix-compilation-error-on-arceb-CPUs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..20db798f3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/diffutils/0004-sigsegv-Fix-compilation-error-on-arceb-CPUs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From 1957bb5113a2bf02c7ecf0815125eec04b9476d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 03:01:51 +0200
+Subject: sigsegv: Fix compilation error on arceb CPUs.
+
+Reported by Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com> in
+<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2022-04/msg00028.html>.
+
+* m4/stack-direction.m4 (SV_STACK_DIRECTION): Treat the 'arc' variants
+like 'arc'.
+
+[Retrieved (and backported) from:
+https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=1957bb5113a2bf02c7ecf0815125eec04b9476d2]
+Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
+---
+ ChangeLog             | 8 ++++++++
+ m4/stack-direction.m4 | 4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/m4/stack-direction.m4 b/m4/stack-direction.m4
+index 1df823e..924c5de 100644
+--- a/m4/stack-direction.m4
++++ b/m4/stack-direction.m4
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-# stack-direction.m4 serial 7
++# stack-direction.m4 serial 11
+ dnl Copyright (C) 2002-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
+ dnl General Public License.  As a special exception to the GNU General
+@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([SV_STACK_DIRECTION],
+       a29k | \
+       aarch64* | \
+       alpha* | \
+-      arc | \
++      arc | arceb | arc32 | arc64 | \
+       arm* | strongarm* | xscale* | \
+       avr | avr32 | \
+       bfin | \
+-- 
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