diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/binutils-2.17.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/binutils-2.17.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..77f21e5f406e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/binutils-2.17.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, noSysDirs}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "binutils-2.17";
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.17.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "e26e2e06b6e4bf3acf1dc8688a94c0d1";
+  };
+  inherit noSysDirs;
+}