diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/0.9.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/0.9.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b635b5e477c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/0.9.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig
+, SDL2, mesa, openal, luajit
+, libdevil, freetype, physfs
+, libmodplug, mpg123, libvorbis, libogg
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "love-0.9.0";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads/${name}-linux-src.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "048n94584cnmdaf2rshakdzbj1lz2yd7k08aiykkpz13aaa283ag";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    pkgconfig SDL2 mesa openal luajit
+    libdevil freetype physfs libmodplug mpg123 libvorbis libogg
+  ];
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-lua=luajit"
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://love2d.org";
+    description = "A Lua-based 2D game engine/scripting language";
+    license = "zlib";
+
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
index e5e3aed8d12..7c11be739f7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl} :
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec{
     version = "2.0.2";
@@ -9,8 +9,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec{
         sha256="0f3cykihfdn3gi6na9p0xjd4jnv26z18m441n5vyg42q9abh4ln0";
     };
 
+    patchPhase = ''
+      substituteInPlace Makefile \
+        --replace ldconfig ${stdenv.glibc}/sbin/ldconfig
+    '';
+
     installPhase = ''
-        mkdir -p $out
         make install PREFIX=$out
     '';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 916cc21564a..c921ada6498 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3209,6 +3209,7 @@ let
 
   love = callPackage ../development/interpreters/love {lua=lua5;};
   love_luajit = callPackage ../development/interpreters/love {lua=luajit;};
+  love_0_9 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/love/0.9.nix { };
 
   lua4 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/lua-4 { };
   lua5_0 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/lua-5/5.0.3.nix { };