diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.9/info.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.9/info.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9653690606a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.9/info.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, texinfo, perl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "glibc-info-2.9";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://nixos.org/tarballs/glibc-2.9-20081208.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "0zhxbgcsl97pf349m0lz8d5ljvvzrcqc23yf08d888xlk4ms8m3h";
+  };
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    export PWD_P=$(type -tP pwd)
+    for i in configure io/ftwtest-sh; do
+        # Can't use substituteInPlace here because replace hasn't been
+        # built yet in the bootstrap.
+        sed -i "$i" -e "s^/bin/pwd^$PWD_P^g"
+    done
+    mkdir ../build
+    cd ../build
+    
+    configureScript=../$sourceRoot/configure
+  '';
+
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-add-ons" ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ texinfo perl ];
+
+  buildPhase = "make info";
+
+  # I don't know why the info is not generated in 'build'
+  # Somehow building the info still does not work, because the final
+  # libc.info hasn't a Top node.
+  installPhase = ''
+    ensureDir $out/share/info
+    cp ../$sourceRoot/manual/*.info $out/share/info
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/;
+    description = "Locale information for the GNU C Library";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 6d7642362a0..94deef7bccc 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3410,6 +3410,10 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
+  glibcInfo = import ../development/libraries/glibc-2.9/info.nix {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv texinfo perl;
+  };
+
   glibc_multi =
       runCommand "${glibc.name}-multi"
         { glibc64 = glibc;