{
  lib,
  stdenv,
  fetchurl,
  perlPackages,
  gettext,
  libintl,
}:

# Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
# cannot use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or
# cgit) that are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as
# files.

stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  pname = "help2man";
  version = "1.49.3";

  src = fetchurl {
    url = "mirror://gnu/help2man/help2man-${version}.tar.xz";
    sha256 = "sha256-TX5P3vLspq/geiaCFRzqeHgeCk6PliIULZ9wwIOi/U8=";
  };

  strictDeps = true;

  enableParallelBuilding = true;

  nativeBuildInputs = [
    gettext
    perlPackages.perl
    perlPackages.LocaleGettext
  ];
  buildInputs = [
    perlPackages.LocaleGettext
    libintl
  ];

  configureFlags = [ "--enable-nls" ];

  doCheck = false; # target `check' is missing

  patches = lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isCygwin ./1.40.4-cygwin-nls.patch;

  # We don't use makeWrapper here because it uses substitutions our
  # bootstrap shell can't handle.
  postInstall = ''
    mv $out/bin/help2man $out/bin/.help2man-wrapped
    cat > $out/bin/help2man <<EOF
    #! $SHELL -e
    export PERL5LIB=\''${PERL5LIB:+:}${perlPackages.LocaleGettext}/${perlPackages.perl.libPrefix}
    ${lib.optionalString stdenv.hostPlatform.isCygwin ''export PATH=\''${PATH:+:}${gettext}/bin''}
    exec -a \$0 $out/bin/.help2man-wrapped "\$@"
    EOF
    chmod +x $out/bin/help2man
  '';

  meta = with lib; {
    description = "Generate man pages from `--help' output";
    mainProgram = "help2man";
    longDescription = ''
      help2man produces simple manual pages from the ‘--help’ and ‘--version’ output of other commands.
    '';
    homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/";
    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
    platforms = platforms.all;
    maintainers = with maintainers; [ pSub ];
  };
}