diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
index 8d76e8b16be5..dd1822de4925 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
@@ -473,6 +473,19 @@ xdvi = stdenv.mkDerivation {
   # TODO: it's suspicious that mktexpk generates fonts into ~/.texlive2014
 };
 
+xpdfopen = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "texlive-xpdfopen.bin";
+  inherit (lib.head texlive.xpdfopen.pkgs) version;
+
+  inherit (common) src;
+
+  buildInputs = [ libX11 ];
+
+  preConfigure = "cd utils/xpdfopen";
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+};
+
 } # un-indented
 
 // lib.optionalAttrs (!clisp.meta.broken) # broken on aarch64 and darwin (#20062)
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
index 25fa96bb9d23..9839d764adf4 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
@@ -123,9 +123,6 @@ let
       #### adjustments to binaries
       # TODO patch the scripts from bin.* directly in bin.* instead of here
 
-      # TODO we do not build binaries for the following packages (yet!)
-      xpdfopen.binfiles = [];
-
       # mptopdf is a format link, but not generated by texlinks
       # so we add it back to binfiles to generate it from mkPkgBin
       mptopdf.binfiles = (orig.mptopdf.binfiles or []) ++ [ "mptopdf" ];