diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim-diet/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim-diet/default.nix
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index 000000000000..f7b0fce333e7
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+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim-diet/default.nix
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+{stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, dietgcc}:
+ 
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "vim-6.3";
+ 
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/vim-6.3.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "821fda8f14d674346b87e3ef9cb96389";
+  };
+ 
+  inherit ncurses;
+  buildInputs = [ncurses];
+
+  NIX_GCC = dietgcc;
+  NIX_GLIBC_FLAGS_SET=1;
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="-D_BSD_SOURCE=1";
+}