diff --git a/dev-cpp/glibmm/Manifest b/dev-cpp/glibmm/Manifest
index ae2c20bb0f4ea..6566f2b3e6d1e 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/glibmm/Manifest
+++ b/dev-cpp/glibmm/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-DIST glibmm-2.50.1.tar.xz 6444576 BLAKE2B dbbdb79d8de9510f9bec770523ca7f4c93d287cbd9890b2fbc08712f6a2815186ee792f6339820a14aa9e4d49c9d1735c6c6651994cc4e03549f0d96b33f87ad SHA512 4f25c75c1628ca2f4db1c29cebc63187d372603066b06aa6a66c6da792f9e02cb4a413e41f058a81e2d5a2b38d625de13df76115b278f010ce2fc493fe6e6bbb
+DIST glibmm-2.50.1.tar.xz 6444576 BLAKE2B dbbdb79d8de9510f9bec770523ca7f4c93d287cbd9890b2fbc08712f6a2815186ee792f6339820a14aa9e4d49c9d1735c6c6651994cc4e03549f0d96b33f87ad SHA256 1fd85051da9cb402cc8348cec72dfe4d79f9345df4a1dbf68703a4ded45846a4 SHA512 4f25c75c1628ca2f4db1c29cebc63187d372603066b06aa6a66c6da792f9e02cb4a413e41f058a81e2d5a2b38d625de13df76115b278f010ce2fc493fe6e6bbb WHIRLPOOL 54b656e04550a050994061db1498a3ac066b1e37643faa218ec1ef04604c0d37c799572b546e79c29f1b35586b1a5b0c354eca72151756eb99f4434a27fa7ae2
 DIST glibmm-2.52.0.tar.xz 6450592 BLAKE2B 2ea123bd193c7a745f52b2357c620fdaaef34c6e349100e732c8a1efde921db6bb0c97de3a61e0e300b98a04eb1c218f1b216c01d36e62d60ea9897a075826ec SHA512 45cbbe4ce4ba04dcadbcc3b46159dda194235c10a7287075724b0e1c19db2e4db061dc2a66823205f6884b30e2ef87ceafdf9cc2970212a2424535dbe3b9a262
+DIST glibmm-2.52.1.tar.xz 6451164 SHA256 dc19d20fb6b24d6b6da7cbe1b2190b38ae6ad64e6b93fecdcce71b995f43c975 SHA512 702158762cb28972b315ab98dc00a62e532bda08b6e76dc2a2556e8cb381c2021290891887a4af2fbff5a62bab4d50581be73037dc8e0dc47d5febd6cbeb7bda WHIRLPOOL e82abfc28bd7dd46b0d756033d4aa9f1343d19c028be3c489e647418d382ce331bf86dbf5752e0924efff9f96620a98b60ad8cf75dd3db0e55e02f29aa80fc97
diff --git a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.52.1.ebuild b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.52.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6b4fa66406414
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.52.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+inherit gnome2 multilib-minimal
+
+DESCRIPTION="C++ interface for glib2"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.gtkmm.org"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+ GPL-2+" # GPL-2+ applies only to the build system
+SLOT="2"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+IUSE="doc debug test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-libs/libsigc++-2.9.1:2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.50.0:2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	doc? ( app-doc/doxygen )
+"
+# dev-cpp/mm-common needed for eautoreconf
+
+src_prepare() {
+	if ! use test; then
+		# don't waste time building tests
+		sed 's/^\(SUBDIRS =.*\)tests\(.*\)$/\1\2/' \
+			-i Makefile.am Makefile.in || die "sed 1 failed"
+	fi
+
+	# don't build examples - we want to install example sources, not binaries
+	sed 's/^\(SUBDIRS =.*\)examples\(.*\)$/\1\2/' \
+		-i Makefile.am Makefile.in || die "sed 2 failed"
+
+	gnome2_src_prepare
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" gnome2_src_configure \
+		$(use_enable debug debug-refcounting) \
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable doc documentation) \
+		--enable-deprecated-api
+}
+
+multilib_src_test() {
+	cd tests
+	default
+
+	for i in */test; do
+		${i} || die "Running tests failed at ${i}"
+	done
+}
+
+multilib_src_install() {
+	gnome2_src_install
+}
+
+multilib_src_install_all() {
+	einstalldocs
+
+	find examples -type d -name '.deps' -exec rm -rf {} \; 2>/dev/null
+	find examples -type f -name 'Makefile*' -exec rm -f {} \; 2>/dev/null
+	dodoc -r examples
+}