diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..116f472cc68f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "patchelf-0.1";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/patchelf-0.1pre1501/patchelf-0.1pre1501.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "b3d82ce1dc68304770fe5411ed718e3a";
+  };
+#  src = /home/eelco/Dev/patchelf/patchelf-0.1.tar.gz;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix b/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
index f114789c6bce..32e154bf0133 100644
--- a/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
@@ -167,6 +167,10 @@ rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv noSysDirs;
   };
 
+  patchelf = (import ../development/tools/misc/patchelf) {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
+  };
+
   gnum4 = (import ../development/tools/misc/gnum4) {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };