diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/4.1/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/4.1/default.nix
index 600f6f5759d9..9ac201070182 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/4.1/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/4.1/default.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     # and /usr/lib. It's a stupid feature anyway. Likewise, when searching for
     # included Makefiles, don't look in /usr/include and friends.
     ./impure-dirs.patch
+
+    # Don't segfault if we can't get a tty name.
+    ./no-tty-name.patch
   ];
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/4.1/no-tty-name.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/4.1/no-tty-name.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a84d7ab49d04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/4.1/no-tty-name.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+From 292da6f6867b75a5af7ddbb639a1feae022f438f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
+Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:54:56 +0000
+Subject: * main.c (main): [SV 43434] Handle NULL returns from ttyname().
+
+---
+diff --git main.c main.c
+index b2d169c..0cdb8a8 100644
+--- main.c
++++ main.c
+@@ -1429,13 +1429,18 @@ main (int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
+ #ifdef HAVE_ISATTY
+     if (isatty (fileno (stdout)))
+       if (! lookup_variable (STRING_SIZE_TUPLE ("MAKE_TERMOUT")))
+-        define_variable_cname ("MAKE_TERMOUT", TTYNAME (fileno (stdout)),
+-                               o_default, 0)->export = v_export;
+-
++        {
++          const char *tty = TTYNAME (fileno (stdout));
++          define_variable_cname ("MAKE_TERMOUT", tty ? tty : DEFAULT_TTYNAME,
++                                 o_default, 0)->export = v_export;
++        }
+     if (isatty (fileno (stderr)))
+       if (! lookup_variable (STRING_SIZE_TUPLE ("MAKE_TERMERR")))
+-        define_variable_cname ("MAKE_TERMERR", TTYNAME (fileno (stderr)),
+-                               o_default, 0)->export = v_export;
++        {
++          const char *tty = TTYNAME (fileno (stderr));
++          define_variable_cname ("MAKE_TERMERR", tty ? tty : DEFAULT_TTYNAME,
++                                 o_default, 0)->export = v_export;
++        }
+ #endif
+ 
+   /* Reset in case the switches changed our minds.  */
+diff --git makeint.h makeint.h
+index 6223936..2009f41 100644
+--- makeint.h
++++ makeint.h
+@@ -436,10 +436,11 @@ extern struct rlimit stack_limit;
+ /* The number of bytes needed to represent the largest integer as a string.  */
+ #define INTSTR_LENGTH         CSTRLEN ("18446744073709551616")
+ 
++#define DEFAULT_TTYNAME "true"
+ #ifdef HAVE_TTYNAME
+ # define TTYNAME(_f) ttyname (_f)
+ #else
+-# define TTYNAME(_f) "true"
++# define TTYNAME(_f) DEFAULT_TTYNAME
+ #endif
+ 
+ 
+--
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