diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/gd-options-passthrough-and-fontconfig.patch b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/gd-options-passthrough-and-fontconfig.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..24eab55f6eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/gd-options-passthrough-and-fontconfig.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+This patch configures Getopt::Long to pass options
+so they will be available at the second GetOptions call.
+
+Also an option to specify the search path for libfontconfig
+is added.
+diff -Naur GD-2.45/Makefile.PL GD-2.45-patched/Makefile.PL
+--- GD-2.45/Makefile.PL	2009-07-10 13:40:07.000000000 -0430
++++ GD-2.45-patched/Makefile.PL	2010-11-26 22:48:52.372992578 -0430
+@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
+ my (@INC,@LIBPATH,@LIBS);
+ my $AUTOCONFIG = 0;      # global set by try_to_autoconfigure() below
+ 
+-my ($options,$lib_gd_path,$lib_ft_path,$lib_png_path,$lib_jpeg_path,$lib_xpm_path,$lib_zlib_path,$force);
++my ($options,$lib_gd_path,$lib_ft_path,$lib_png_path,$lib_jpeg_path,$lib_xpm_path,$lib_zlib_path,$lib_fontconfig_path,$force);
+ 
+-use Getopt::Long;
++use Getopt::Long qw(:config pass_through);
+ GetOptions("ignore_missing_gd" => \$force);
+ 
+ unless (try_to_autoconfigure(\$options,\$lib_gd_path,\@INC,\@LIBPATH,\@LIBS) || $force) {
+@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
+ 			"lib_jpeg_path=s" => \$lib_jpeg_path,
+ 			"lib_xpm_path=s"  => \$lib_xpm_path,
+ 			"lib_zlib_path=s" => \$lib_zlib_path,
++                        "lib_fontconfig_path=s" => \$lib_fontconfig_path,
+ 		       );
+ unless ($result) {
+   print STDERR <<END;
+@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@
+      -lib_jpeg_path path            path to libjpeg
+      -lib_xpm_path  path            path to libxpm
+      -lib_zlib_path path            path to libpng
++     -lib_fontconfig_path path      path to libfontconfig
+      -ignore_missing_gd             Ignore missing or old libgd installations and try to compile anyway
+ 
+ If no options are passed on the command line.  The program will
+@@ -111,6 +113,12 @@
+     @INC     = ("-I$lib_zlib_path/include", @INC);
+     @LIBPATH = ("-L$lib_zlib_path/lib", @LIBPATH); 
+ }
++if( defined($lib_fontconfig_path) ) 
++{
++    print "Fontconfig library used from:     $lib_fontconfig_path\n";
++    @INC     = ("-I$lib_fontconfig_path/include", @INC);
++    @LIBPATH = ("-L$lib_fontconfig_path/lib", @LIBPATH); 
++}
+ #############################################################################################
+ 
+ if ($^O eq 'VMS'){
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 8c2b616d796..88f666b8c0d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -556,6 +556,14 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
+  ClassBase = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "Class-Base-0.03";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/A/AB/ABW/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "149875qzfyayvkb6dm8frg0kmkzyjswwrjz7gyvwi7l8b19kiyk4";
+    };
+  };
+
   ClassC3 = buildPerlPackage rec {
     name = "Class-C3-0.21";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -616,6 +624,14 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
+  ClassMakeMethods = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "Class-MakeMethods-1.009";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/E/EV/EVO/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "10f65j4ywrnwyz0dm1q5ymmpv875drj40mj1xvsjv0bnjinnwzj8";
+    };
+  };
+
   ClassMOP = buildPerlPackage rec {
     name = "Class-MOP-0.88";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -1235,6 +1251,49 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
+  GD = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "GD-2.45";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "1p84585b4iyqa21hbqni0blj8fzd917ynd3y1hwh3mrmyfqj178x";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = [ pkgs.gd pkgs.libjpeg pkgs.zlib pkgs.freetype 
+                    pkgs.libpng pkgs.fontconfig pkgs.xlibs.libXpm GetOptLong ];
+
+    # Patch needed to get arguments past the first GetOptions call
+    # and to specify libfontconfig search path.
+    # Patch has been sent upstream.
+    patches = [ ../development/perl-modules/gd-options-passthrough-and-fontconfig.patch ];
+
+    # Remove a failing test.  The test does a binary comparison of a generated
+    # file with a file packaged with the source, and these are different
+    # ( although the images look the same to my eye ); this is
+    # possibly because the source packaged image was generated with a
+    # different version of some library ( libpng maybe? ).
+    postPatch = "sed -ie 's/if (GD::Image->can(.newFromJpeg.)) {/if ( 0 ) {/' t/GD.t";    
+
+    makeMakerFlags = "--lib_png_path=${pkgs.libpng} --lib_jpeg_path=${pkgs.libjpeg} --lib_zlib_path=${pkgs.zlib} --lib_ft_path=${pkgs.freetype} --lib_fontconfig_path=${pkgs.fontconfig} --lib_xpm_path=${pkgs.xlibs.libXpm}";
+  };
+
+  GetOptLong = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "Getopt-Long-2.38";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/J/JV/JV/modules/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "0lrsm8vlqhdnkzfvyaiyfivmaar0rirrnwa2v0qk6l130a497mky";
+    };
+  };
+
+  Graph = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "Graph-0.94";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/modules/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "1lyfl9s4mkhahnpxk2z5v6j750jqb4sls56b9rnkl5lni9ms7xgn";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = [ TestPod TestPodCoverage ];
+  };
+
   GraphViz = buildPerlPackage rec {
     name = "GraphViz-2.04";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -1244,7 +1303,7 @@ rec {
 
     # XXX: It'd be nicer it `GraphViz.pm' could record the path to graphviz.
     buildInputs = [ pkgs.graphviz ];
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ IPCRun ];
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ IPCRun TestMore ];
 
     meta = {
       description = "Perl interface to the GraphViz graphing tool";
@@ -1482,6 +1541,14 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
+  IOStringy = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "IO-stringy-2.110";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DS/DSKOLL/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "1vh4n0k22hx20rwvf6h7lp25wb7spg0089shrf92d2lkncwg8g3y";
+    };
+  };
+
   IPCRun = buildPerlPackage rec {
     name = "IPC-Run-0.82";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -1951,6 +2018,14 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
+  OLEStorageLight = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "OLE-Storage_Lite-0.19";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/J/JM/JMCNAMARA/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "179cxwqxb0f9dpx8954nvwjmggxxi5ndnang41yav1dx6mf0abp7";
+    };
+  };
+  
   ParamsUtil = buildPerlPackage rec {
     name = "Params-Util-1.01";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -1975,11 +2050,11 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
-  ParseRecDescent = buildPerlPackage {
-    name = "ParseRecDescent-1.96.0";
+  ParseRecDescent = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "Parse-RecDescent-1.965001";
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Parse-RecDescent-1.96.0.tar.gz;
-      sha256 = "1hnsnpzdwcwpbnsspaz55gx7x7h1rpxdk7k1ninnqk1jximl3y9n";
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "0r4dnrjgxv5irkyx1kgkg8vj6wqx67q5hbkifpb54906kc1n7yh0";
     };
   };
 
@@ -2231,6 +2306,16 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
+  SpreadsheetParseExcel = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.58";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/J/JM/JMCNAMARA/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "1ha32kfgf0b9mk00dvsx0jq72xsx0qskmgrnixcdfh044lcxzk17";
+    };
+
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ IOStringy OLEStorageLight ];
+  };
+
   SQLAbstract = buildPerlPackage rec {
     name = "SQL-Abstract-1.60";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -2254,6 +2339,20 @@ rec {
     buildInputs = [TestPod TestPodCoverage];
   };
 
+  SQLTranslator = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "SQL-Translator-0.11006";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/R/RI/RIBASUSHI/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "0ifnzap3pgkxvkv2gxpmv02637pfraza5m4zk99braw319ra4mla";
+    };
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [
+      ClassBase ClassDataInheritable ClassMakeMethods DigestSHA1 CarpClan IOStringy
+      ParseRecDescent ClassAccessor DBI FileShareDir XMLWriter YAML TestDifferences
+      TemplateToolkit GraphViz XMLLibXML TestPod TextRecordParser HTMLParser
+      SpreadsheetParseExcel Graph GD
+    ];
+  };
+
   StringFormat = buildPerlPackage rec {
     name = "String-Format-1.16";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -2445,6 +2544,15 @@ rec {
     propagatedBuildInputs = [TestTester TestNoWarnings];
   };
 
+  TestDifferences = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "Test-Differences-0.500";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/O/OV/OVID/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "0ha36j6wr1d47zzilb28bvkm5lm5c6i4rqp4aqyknwg4qmagjr4w";
+    };
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ TestMore TextDiff ];
+  };
+
   TestException = buildPerlPackage {
     name = "Test-Exception-0.27";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -2627,6 +2735,15 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
+  TextDiff = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "Text-Diff-1.37";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "08das6k4nrf8dgcg2l1jcy8868kgzx976j38rpdndgrgq0nz148n";
+    };
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ AlgorithmDiff ];
+  };
+
   TextMarkdown = buildPerlPackage rec {
     name = "Text-Markdown-1.0.26";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -2646,6 +2763,21 @@ rec {
     propagatedBuildInputs = [ CompressZlib ];
   };
 
+  TextRecordParser = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "Text-RecordParser-v1.5.0";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/K/KC/KCLARK/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "0zlwpayjnpjani3v3hgi77207i3n5fppcxww20chdldx98dkj7jm";
+    };
+
+    # In a NixOS chroot build, the tests fail because the font configuration
+    # at /etc/fonts/font.conf is not available.
+    doCheck = false;
+
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ TestException IOStringy ClassAccessor Readonly ListMoreUtils
+                              TestPod TestPodCoverage GraphViz ReadonlyXS TextTabularDisplay];
+  };
+
   TextSimpleTable = buildPerlPackage {
     name = "Text-SimpleTable-0.05";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -2663,6 +2795,15 @@ rec {
     propagatedBuildInputs = [TextAligner];
   };
 
+  TextTabularDisplay = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "Text-TabularDisplay-1.22";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DA/DARREN/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "05r3jvdf8av16hgy0i3wnc581ski08q1bnllq5cq1fnc7h2nm1c7";
+    };
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [TextAligner];
+  };
+
   TieIxhash = buildPerlPackage rec {
     name = "Tie-IxHash-1.21";
     src = fetchurl {