diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/doxygen/1.7.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/doxygen/1.7.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..86f2e8cf2b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/doxygen/1.7.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl, flex, bison, qt4 }:
+
+let
+  name = "doxygen-1.7.4";
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  inherit name;
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/users/dimitri/${name}.src.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0rnzyp5f8c454fdkgpg5hpxwmx642spgxcpw3blbvnyw8129jp44";
+  };
+
+  patches = [ ./tmake.patch ];
+
+  buildInputs =
+    [ perl flex bison ]
+    ++ stdenv.lib.optional (qt4 != null) qt4;
+
+  prefixKey = "--prefix ";
+
+  configureFlags =
+    [ "--dot dot" ]
+    ++ stdenv.lib.optional (qt4 != null) "--with-doxywizard";
+
+  preConfigure = stdenv.lib.optionalString (qt4 != null)
+    ''
+      echo "using QTDIR=${qt4}..."
+      export QTDIR=${qt4}
+    '';
+
+  makeFlags = "MAN1DIR=share/man/man1";
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+    homepage = "http://doxygen.org/";
+    description = "Doxygen, a source code documentation generator tool";
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C,
+      Python, IDL (CORBA and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP,
+      C\#, and to some extent D.  It can generate an on-line
+      documentation browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference
+      manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files.
+    '';
+
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.simons];
+    platforms = if (qt4 != null) then stdenv.lib.platforms.linux else stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e74aba5c27c..8b9d0ac32f7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3007,6 +3007,15 @@ let
 
   doxygen = lowPrio (doxygen_gui.override { qt4 = null; });
 
+  /* XXX: The LaTeX output with Doxygen 1.8.0 makes LaTeX barf:
+
+       ! You can't use `\/' in vertical mode.
+
+     Thus, keep 1.7 around until a better fix is available.  */
+  doxygen_1_7 = callPackage ../development/tools/documentation/doxygen/1.7.nix {
+    qt4 = null;
+  };
+
   doxygen_gui = callPackage ../development/tools/documentation/doxygen { };
 
   eggdbus = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/eggdbus { };