diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.nix
index 6be976783bcd..b34b5e8a4465 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.nix
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 let startFPC = import ./binary.nix { inherit stdenv fetchurl; }; in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "2.6.0";
+  version = "2.6.4";
   name = "fpc-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/freepascal/fpcbuild-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1vxy2y8pm0ribhpdhqlwwz696ncnz4rk2dafbn1mjgipm97qb26p";
+    sha256 = "1akdlp4n9ai1gnn4yq236i5rx03rs5sjfgk60myb7nb9lk7kp74d";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ startFPC gawk ];
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       sed -e "s@'/lib64/ld-linux[^']*'@'''@" -i fpcsrc/compiler/systems/t_linux.pas
     '' else "";
 
-  makeFlags = "NOGDB=1";
+  makeFlags = "NOGDB=1 FPC=${startFPC}/bin/fpc";
 
   installFlags = "INSTALL_PREFIX=\${out}";
   
@@ -31,9 +31,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     $out/lib/fpc/*/samplecfg $out/lib/fpc/${version} $out/lib/fpc/etc/
   '';
 
+  passthru = {
+    bootstrap = startFPC;
+  };
+
   meta = {
     description = "Free Pascal Compiler from a source distribution";
     maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin];
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    inherit version;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.upstream
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c11fb4761e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.upstream
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+url http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Source/
+SF_version_dir
+version_link 'fpcbuild-[0-9.]+[.]tar[.]gz/download$'
+SF_redirect
+version '.*-([0-9.]+)[.]tar[.]gz' '\1'
+do_overwrite () { do_overwrite_just_version; }