diff --git a/maintainers/docs/create-new-static-env b/maintainers/docs/create-new-static-env
index feb3a976ab9..eebbb9496e7 100644
--- a/maintainers/docs/create-new-static-env
+++ b/maintainers/docs/create-new-static-env
@@ -4,3 +4,16 @@ Creating a new static stdenv
 When Nix is ported to a new (Linux) platform and you want to have a completely
 pure setup for the stdenv (for example for NixOS) it is necessary to rebuild
 the static tools.
+
+The challenge is that there is no Nix environment yet, for bootstrapping.
+The first task is to create all the tools that are necessary. For most tools
+there are ready made Nix expressions.
+
+
+  GCC
+
+There is an expression gcc-static-3.4. Depending on whether or not you already
+have an environment built with Nix (x86-linux: yes, rest: not yet) you should
+set the noSysDirs parameter in all-packages.nix. If there is an environment,
+leave it, but if the system is still impure (like most systems), set noSysDirs
+to false.