diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.71.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.71.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3b70e819c899
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.71.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, m4, perl }:
+
+# 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 {
+  name = "autoconf-2.71";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnu/autoconf/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "197sl23irn6s9pd54rxj5vcp5y8dv65jb9yfqgr2g56cxg7q6k7i";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ m4 perl ];
+  buildInputs = [ m4 ];
+
+  # Work around a known issue in Cygwin.  See
+  # http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/6822 for
+  # details.
+  # There are many test failures on `i386-pc-solaris2.11'.
+  doCheck = ((!stdenv.isCygwin) && (!stdenv.isSunOS));
+
+  # Don't fixup "#! /bin/sh" in Autoconf, otherwise it will use the
+  # "fixed" path in generated files!
+  dontPatchShebangs = true;
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  # Make the Autotest test suite run in parallel.
+  preCheck =''
+    export TESTSUITEFLAGS="-j$NIX_BUILD_CORES"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://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 = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
+
+    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c9e45a90aea7..e65beb79f420 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ in
     { deps = [ autoconf269 automake gettext libtool ]; }
     ../build-support/setup-hooks/autoreconf.sh;
 
+  autoreconfHook271 = makeSetupHook
+    { deps = [ autoconf271 automake gettext libtool ]; }
+    ../build-support/setup-hooks/autoreconf.sh;
+
   autoPatchelfHook = makeSetupHook { name = "auto-patchelf-hook"; }
     ../build-support/setup-hooks/auto-patchelf.sh;
 
@@ -11624,6 +11628,7 @@ in
   autoconf264 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.64.nix { };
   autoconf269 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.69.nix { };
   autoconf270 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/autoconf { };
+  autoconf271 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/autoconf/2.71.nix { };
 
   autocutsel = callPackage ../tools/X11/autocutsel{ };