diff --git a/pkgs/gettext/gettext-build.sh b/pkgs/gettext/gettext-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..57f18bb3da15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/gettext/gettext-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+. $stdenv/setup || exit 1
+
+tar xvfz $src || exit 1
+cd gettext-* || exit 1
+./configure --prefix=$out || exit 1
+make || exit 1
+make install || exit 1
diff --git a/pkgs/gettext/gettext.fix b/pkgs/gettext/gettext.fix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..825aa7f383d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/gettext/gettext.fix
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Package(
+  [ ("name", "gettext-0.12.1")
+
+  , ("build", Relative("gettext/gettext-build.sh"))
+
+  , ("src", App(IncludeFix("fetchurl/fetchurl.fix"),
+      [ ("url", "ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.12.1.tar.gz")
+      , ("md5", "5d4bddd300072315e668247e5b7d5bdb")
+      ]))
+
+  , ("stdenv", IncludeFix("stdenv/stdenv.fix"))
+  ]
+)
diff --git a/pkgs/glib/glib-build.sh b/pkgs/glib/glib-build.sh
index 1da5fb302388..b1df2d3700e0 100755
--- a/pkgs/glib/glib-build.sh
+++ b/pkgs/glib/glib-build.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
 . $stdenv/setup || exit 1
-export PATH=$pkgconfig/bin:$PATH
+export PATH=$pkgconfig/bin:$gettext/bin:$PATH
 
 tar xvfj $src || exit 1
 cd glib-* || exit 1
diff --git a/pkgs/glib/glib.fix b/pkgs/glib/glib.fix
index 9af1337312c6..bb32927099b6 100644
--- a/pkgs/glib/glib.fix
+++ b/pkgs/glib/glib.fix
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ Package(
 
   , ("stdenv", IncludeFix("stdenv/stdenv.fix"))
   , ("pkgconfig", IncludeFix("pkgconfig/pkgconfig.fix"))
+  , ("gettext", IncludeFix("gettext/gettext.fix"))
   ]
 )