diff --git a/pkgs/getopt/getopt-build.sh b/pkgs/getopt/getopt-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..30ac6e3d453
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/getopt/getopt-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+. $stdenv/setup || exit 1
+
+tar xvfz $src || exit 1
+cd getopt-* || exit 1
+make || exit 1
+make install prefix=$out || exit 1
diff --git a/pkgs/getopt/getopt.fix b/pkgs/getopt/getopt.fix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ffe1979b278
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/getopt/getopt.fix
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Package(
+  [ ("name", "getopt-1.1.3")
+
+  , ("build", Relative("getopt/getopt-build.sh"))
+
+  , ("src", Call(IncludeFix("fetchurl/fetchurl.fix"),
+      [ ("url", "http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol/getopt-1.1.3.tar.gz`")
+      , ("md5", "7b7637dcb0ac531f1af29f4d6b018e86")
+      ]))
+
+  , ("stdenv", IncludeFix("stdenv/stdenv.fix"))
+  ]
+)
+
diff --git a/pkgs/sdf2/sdf2-build.sh b/pkgs/sdf2/sdf2-build.sh
index f9a69962d52..07dc26a3bda 100755
--- a/pkgs/sdf2/sdf2-build.sh
+++ b/pkgs/sdf2/sdf2-build.sh
@@ -7,3 +7,10 @@ cd sdf2-* || exit 1
 ./configure --prefix=$out --with-aterm=$aterm || exit 1
 make || exit 1
 make install || exit 1
+
+# Replace the call to getopt in sdf2table with an absolute path (so that the
+# users of sdf2table don't have to explicitly declare getopt as an input).
+sdf2table=$out/bin/sdf2table
+sed s^getopt^$getopt/bin/getopt^ < $sdf2table > $sdf2table.tmp || exit 1
+mv $sdf2table.tmp $sdf2table || exit 1
+chmod +x $sdf2table || exit 1
diff --git a/pkgs/sdf2/sdf2.fix b/pkgs/sdf2/sdf2.fix
index 0248942dcab..1a0f00f7042 100644
--- a/pkgs/sdf2/sdf2.fix
+++ b/pkgs/sdf2/sdf2.fix
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ Package(
 
   , ("stdenv", IncludeFix("stdenv/stdenv.fix"))
   , ("aterm", IncludeFix("aterm/aterm.fix"))
+  , ("getopt", IncludeFix("getopt/getopt.fix"))
   ]
 )