diff --git a/pkgs/servers/computing/slurm/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/computing/slurm/default.nix
index 9334c20943c5..ed9af47a223b 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/computing/slurm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/computing/slurm/default.nix
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       "--with-jwt=${libjwt}"
       "--with-lz4=${lz4.dev}"
       "--with-munge=${munge}"
-      "--with-yaml=${libyaml}"
+      "--with-yaml=${libyaml.dev}"
       "--with-ofed=${rdma-core}"
       "--sysconfdir=/etc/slurm"
       "--with-pmix=${pmix}"