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+{ stdenv, fetchgit }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "xgboost-${version}";
+  version = "2016-05-14";
+
+  # needs submodules
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost";
+    rev = "9c26566eb09733423f821f139938ff4105c3775d";
+    sha256 = "0nmhgl70mnc2igkfppdw2in66zdczzsqxrlsb4bknrglpp3axnm1";
+  };
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out
+    cp -r include $out
+    install -Dm755 lib/libxgboost.so $out/lib/libxgboost.so
+    install -Dm755 xgboost $out/bin/xgboost
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ abbradar ];
+  };
+}