diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/m4-1.4.7.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/m4-1.4.7.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7f3f67bb811f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/m4-1.4.7.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "gnum4-1.4.7";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.7.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "0115a354217e36ca396ad258f6749f51";
+  };
+}