diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/default.nix
index 2386cc271550..9ab43e7392d7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/default.nix
@@ -48,7 +48,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     libX11 libXau libXt libXpm xproto libXext xextproto
   ];
 
-  patches = [ ./bits_ipctypes_to_sys_ipc.patch ]; # from Gentoo
+  patches = [
+    ./bits_ipctypes_to_sys_ipc.patch # from Gentoo
+    # The cfree alias no longer exists since glibc 2.26
+    ./remove-cfree-binding.patch
+  ];
 
   # First, replace port 9090 (rather low, can be used)
   # with 64237 (much higher, IANA private area, not
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/remove-cfree-binding.patch b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/remove-cfree-binding.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4b570c3a4672
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/remove-cfree-binding.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/modules/bindings/glibc/linux.lisp b/modules/bindings/glibc/linux.lisp
+index c40b4f8..1c8edca 100644
+--- a/modules/bindings/glibc/linux.lisp
++++ b/modules/bindings/glibc/linux.lisp
+@@ -648,7 +648,6 @@
+ (def-call-out calloc (:arguments (nmemb size_t) (size size_t))
+   (:return-type c-pointer))
+ (def-call-out free (:arguments (ptr c-pointer)) (:return-type nil))
+-(def-call-out cfree (:arguments (ptr c-pointer)) (:return-type nil))
+ (def-call-out valloc (:arguments (size size_t)) (:return-type c-pointer))
+ 
+ (def-call-out abort (:arguments) (:return-type nil))