diff --git a/pkgs/boehmgc/boehmgc-build.sh b/pkgs/boehmgc/boehmgc-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..0cba442c4232
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/boehmgc/boehmgc-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+. $stdenv/setup || exit 1
+
+tar xvfz $src || exit 1
+cd gc* || exit 1
+./configure --prefix=$out --disable-shared || exit 1
+make || exit 1
+make install || exit 1
+strip -S $out/lib/*.a || exit 1
diff --git a/pkgs/boehmgc/boehmgc.fix b/pkgs/boehmgc/boehmgc.fix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1dfa8f165d84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/boehmgc/boehmgc.fix
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Package(
+  [ ("name", "boehmgc-6.2")
+  , ("build", Relative("boehmgc/boehmgc-build.sh"))
+
+  , ("src", App(IncludeFix("fetchurl/fetchurl.fix"),
+      [ ("url", "http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc6.2.tar.gz")
+      , ("md5", "15492b14ca7b9a9e035238611e9cd1e3")
+      ]))
+
+  , ("stdenv", IncludeFix("stdenv/stdenv.fix"))
+  ]
+)