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+{ stdenv, fetchurl, ocaml, findlib, ncurses }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+
+  name = "ocp-build-1.99.8-beta";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://www.typerex.org/pub/ocp-build/ocp-build.1.99.8-beta.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "03zqpl73ah0fji5baxmk8w0h7waamlnhhysi128yap4abzsh5w87";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib ncurses ];
+
+  patches = [ ./fix-for-no-term.patch ];
+
+  # In the Nix sandbox, the TERM variable is unset and stty does not
+  # work. In such a case, ocp-build crashes due to a bug. The
+  # ./fix-for-no-term.patch fixes this bug in the source code and hence
+  # also in the final installed version of ocp-build. However, it does not
+  # fix the bug in the precompiled bootstrap version of ocp-build that is
+  # used during the compilation process. In order to bypass the bug until
+  # it's also fixed upstream, we simply set TERM to some valid entry in the
+  # terminfo database during the bootstrap.
+  TERM = "xterm";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://www.typerex.org/ocp-build.html;
+    description = "A build tool for OCaml";
+    longDescription = ''
+      ocp-build is a build system for OCaml application, based on simple
+      descriptions of packages. ocp-build combines the descriptions of
+      packages, and optimize the parallel compilation of files depending on
+      the number of cores and the automatically-inferred dependencies
+      between source files.
+    '';
+    license = licenses.gpl3;
+    platforms = ocaml.meta.platforms;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.jirkamarsik ];
+  };
+}