diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/MNI/default.nix b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/MNI/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..806c7703c889
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/MNI/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ fetchFromGitHub, buildPerlPackage, stdenv, perl }:
+
+buildPerlPackage rec {
+  name = "MNI-Perllib-0.08";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner  = "BIC-MNI";
+    repo   = "mni-perllib";
+    rev    = "b908472b4390180ea5d19a121ac5edad6ed88d83";
+    sha256 = "0vk99pwgbard62k63386r7dpnm3h435jdqywr4xqfq7p04dz6kyb";
+  };
+
+  patches = [ ./no-stdin.patch ];
+
+  doCheck = false;  # TODO: almost all tests fail ... is this a real problem?
+
+  meta = {
+    license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ artistic1 gpl1Plus ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/MNI/no-stdin.patch b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/MNI/no-stdin.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1e9e791257e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/MNI/no-stdin.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
+index 9f2039a..12d699c 100644
+--- a/Makefile.PL
++++ b/Makefile.PL
+@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ TEXT
+ }  # &MY::postamble
+ 
+ 
+-query_subs;
++#query_subs;
+ 
+ my $f;
+ WriteMakefile 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 5a7e4000fe58..c34986db3859 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -8983,6 +8983,10 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
     };
   };
 
+  MNI-Perllib = import ../development/perl-modules/MNI {
+    inherit buildPerlPackage fetchFromGitHub stdenv perl;
+  };
+
   ModernPerl = buildPerlPackage {
     name = "Modern-Perl-1.20140107";
     src = fetchurl {