diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/f2fs-tools/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/f2fs-tools/default.nix
index a1428a257742..90bb443dfdd2 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/f2fs-tools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/f2fs-tools/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ libselinux libuuid ];
 
+  patches = [ ./f2fs-tools-cross-fix.patch ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git/;
     description = "Userland tools for the f2fs filesystem";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/f2fs-tools/f2fs-tools-cross-fix.patch b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/f2fs-tools/f2fs-tools-cross-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1503732240c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/f2fs-tools/f2fs-tools-cross-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+--- f2fs-tools/configure.ac.orig	2018-11-29 05:05:57.154988687 +0300
++++ f2fs-tools/configure.ac	2018-11-29 05:06:12.667316101 +0300
+@@ -20,14 +20,16 @@
+ 				[\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\)\(\w\|\W\)*], [\2]),
+ 				[Minor version for f2fs-tools])
+ 
+-AC_CHECK_FILE(.git,
+-	AC_DEFINE([F2FS_TOOLS_DATE],
+-		"m4_bpatsubst(f2fs_tools_gitdate,
+-		[\([0-9-]*\)\(\w\|\W\)*], [\1])",
+-		[f2fs-tools date based on Git commits]),
+-	AC_DEFINE([F2FS_TOOLS_DATE],
+-		"f2fs_tools_date",
+-		[f2fs-tools date based on Source releases]))
++dnl AC_CHECK_FILE(.git,
++dnl 	AC_DEFINE([F2FS_TOOLS_DATE],
++dnl 		"m4_bpatsubst(f2fs_tools_gitdate,
++dnl 		[\([0-9-]*\)\(\w\|\W\)*], [\1])",
++dnl 		[f2fs-tools date based on Git commits]),
++dnl 	AC_DEFINE([F2FS_TOOLS_DATE],
++dnl 		"f2fs_tools_date",
++dnl 		[f2fs-tools date based on Source releases]))
++
++AC_DEFINE([F2FS_TOOLS_DATE], "f2fs_tools_date", [f2fs-tools date based on Source releases])
+ 
+ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([config.h.in])
+ AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])