diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/pthread-stubs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/pthread-stubs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8a007b0f968
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/pthread-stubs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "pthread-stubs-0.1";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/libpthread-stubs-0.1.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "0raxl73kmviqinp00bfa025d0j4vmfjjcvfn754mi60mw48swk80";
+  };
+}