diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/bsd/freebsd/pkgs/libcxxrt.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/bsd/freebsd/pkgs/libcxxrt.nix
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+{ mkDerivation, ... }:
+# this package is quite different from stock libcxxrt.
+# as of FreeBSD 14.0, it is vendored from APPROXIMATELY libcxxrt
+# 5d8a15823a103bbc27f1bfdcf2b5aa008fab57dd, though the vendoring mechanism is
+# extremely ad-hoc. Moreover, the build mechanism is totally custom, and adds
+# symbol versions not specified on any version of libcxxrt.
+mkDerivation {
+  pname = "libcxxrt";
+  path = "lib/libcxxrt";
+  extraPaths = [ "contrib/libcxxrt" ];
+}