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+{ stdenv, fetchgit, xz, lzma }:
+
+let name = "pxz";
+    version = "4.999.9beta+git";
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = name + "-" + version;
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://github.com/jnovy/pxz.git";
+    rev = "ae808463c2950edfdedb8fb49f95006db0a18667";
+    sha256 = "0na2kw8cf0qd8l1aywlv9m3xrxnqlcwxfdwp3f7x9vxwqx3k32kc";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ lzma ];
+
+  patches = [ ./_SC_ARG_MAX.patch ];
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    gcc -o pxz pxz.c -llzma \
+        -fopenmp -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -O2 \
+        -DPXZ_BUILD_DATE=\"nixpkgs\" \
+        -DXZ_BINARY=\"${xz}/bin/xz\" \
+        -DPXZ_VERSION=\"${version}\"
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin $out/share/man/man1
+    cp pxz $out/bin
+    cp pxz.1 $out/share/man/man1
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/pxz/";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [pashev];
+    description = ''Parallel XZ is a compression utility that takes advantage of
+      running LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple
+      cores and processors simultaneously. Its primary goal is to utilize all
+      resources to speed up compression time with minimal possible influence
+      on compression ratio'';
+  };
+}