diff --git a/maintainers/docs/create-new-static-env b/maintainers/docs/create-new-static-env
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..feb3a976ab9
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+++ b/maintainers/docs/create-new-static-env
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Creating a new static stdenv
+----------------------------
+
+When Nix is ported to a new (Linux) platform and you want to have a completely
+pure setup for the stdenv (for example for NixOS) it is necessary to rebuild
+the static tools.
diff --git a/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env b/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env
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--- a/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env
+++ b/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ The tools can be found in nixpkgs in:
 - tools/text/gnupatch-diet
 - tools/misc/findutils-static
 
+and
+- development/compilers/gcc-static-3.4
+
 Most packages are compiled with dietlibc, an alternate C library, apart
 from bash and findutils, which are statically linked to glibc. The reason
 we chose dietlibc has various reasons. First of all, curl cannot be built