diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.64.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.64.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9e70833e008f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.64.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, m4, perl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "autoconf-2.64";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnu/autoconf/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "0j3jdjpf5ly39dlp0bg70h72nzqr059k0x8iqxvaxf106chpgn9j";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ m4 perl ];
+
+  # Work around a known issue in Cygwin.  See
+  # http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/6822 for
+  # details.
+  # There are many test failures on `i386-pc-solaris2.11'.
+  #doCheck = ((!stdenv.isCygwin) && (!stdenv.isSunOS));
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  # Don't fixup "#! /bin/sh" in Autoconf, otherwise it will use the
+  # "fixed" path in generated files!
+  dontPatchShebangs = true;
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  preCheck =
+    # Make the Autotest test suite run in parallel.
+    '' export TESTSUITEFLAGS="-j$NIX_BUILD_CORES"
+    '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/;
+    description = "Part of the GNU Build System";
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      GNU Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce
+      shell scripts to automatically configure software source code
+      packages.  These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of
+      UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention.  Autoconf
+      creates a configuration script for a package from a template
+      file that lists the operating system features that the package
+      can use, in the form of M4 macro calls.
+    '';
+
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4008384dde47..a10973312f33 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5710,6 +5710,7 @@ in
   autoconf-archive = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/autoconf-archive { };
 
   autoconf213 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.13.nix { };
+  autoconf264 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.64.nix { };
 
   autocutsel = callPackage ../tools/X11/autocutsel{ };