diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/help2man/help2man-1.36.4.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/help2man/help2man-1.36.4.nix
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+{stdenv, fetchurl, perl, gettext, perlLocaleGettext}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "help2man-1.36.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.36.4.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "d31a0a38c2ec71faa06723f6b8bd3076";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    perl
+    gettext
+    perlLocaleGettext
+  ];
+
+  # So that configure can find `preloadable_libintl.so'.
+  LD_LIBRARY_PATH = gettext ~ "/lib";
+
+  inherit gettext;
+}