diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/isa-l/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/isa-l/default.nix
index 8e7c04621917..6a53990b7823 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/isa-l/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/isa-l/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, nasm }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, runCommand, autoreconfHook, nix, nasm }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "isa-l";
@@ -17,6 +17,42 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     export AS=nasm
   '';
 
+  passthru = {
+    tests = {
+      igzip = runCommand "test-isa-l-igzip" {
+        nativeBuildInputs = [
+          finalAttrs.finalPackage
+        ];
+        sample = runCommand "nixpkgs-lib.nar" {
+          nativeBuildInputs = [ nix ];
+        } ''
+          nix nar --extra-experimental-features nix-command pack ${../../../../lib} > "$out"
+        '';
+        meta = {
+          description = "Cross validation of igzip provided by isa-l with gzip";
+        };
+      } ''
+        HASH_ORIGINAL="$(cat "$sample" | sha256sum | cut -d" " -f1)"
+        HASH_COMPRESSION_TEST="$(igzip -c "$sample" | gzip -d -c | sha256sum | cut -d" " -f1)"
+        HASH_DECOMPRESSION_TEST="$(gzip -c "$sample" | igzip -d -c | sha256sum | cut -d" " -f1)"
+        if [[ "$HASH_COMPRESSION_TEST" != "$HASH_ORIGINAL" ]] || [[ "$HASH_DECOMPRESSION_TEST" != "$HASH_ORIGINAL" ]]; then
+          if [[ "HASH_COMPRESSION_TEST" != "$HASH_ORIGINAL" ]]; then
+            echo "The igzip-compressed file does not decompress to the original file." 1>&2
+          fi
+          if [[ "HASH_DECOMPRESSION_TEST" != "$HASH_ORIGINAL" ]]; then
+            echo "igzip does not decompress the gzip-compressed archive to the original file." 1>&2
+          fi
+          echo "SHA256 checksums:" 1>&2
+          printf '  original file:\t%s\n' "$HASH_ORIGINAL" 1>&2
+          printf '  compression test:\t%s\n' "$HASH_COMPRESSION_TEST" 1>&2
+          printf '  decompression test:\t%s\n' "$HASH_DECOMPRESSION_TEST" 1>&2
+          exit 1
+        fi
+        touch "$out"
+      '';
+    };
+  };
+
   meta = {
     description = "Collection of optimised low-level functions targeting storage applications";
     mainProgram = "igzip";