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+{
+  fetchurl,
+  lib,
+  zlib,
+  stdenv,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  name = "gensort";
+  version = "1.5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://www.ordinal.com/try.cgi/gensort-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.gz";
+    hash = "sha256-f3VzeD2CmM7z3Uqh24IlyRTeGgz+0oOWXqILaYOKZ60=";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    zlib
+  ];
+
+  env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Wno-error=format-security";
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+    install -Dm755 gensort $out/bin/gensort
+    install -Dm755 valsort $out/bin/valsort
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Generate and validate records for the sorting benchmark";
+    longDescription = ''
+      The gensort program can be used to generate input records for the sort
+      benchmarks presented on www.sortbenchmark.org.
+
+      The valsort program can be used to validate the sort output file is
+      correct.
+    '';
+    homepage = "https://www.ordinal.com/gensort.html";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Only;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ zimeg ];
+    mainProgram = "gensort";
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+})