diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmsgpack/CMakeLists.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmsgpack/CMakeLists.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..657c30d5fe97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmsgpack/CMakeLists.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -r 791a4edd7e1d CMakeLists.txt
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt	Sun Oct 05 13:14:14 2014 +0100
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt	Sun Oct 05 13:20:12 2014 +0100
+@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
+ INSTALL (TARGETS msgpack msgpack-static DESTINATION lib)
+ INSTALL (DIRECTORY src/msgpack DESTINATION include)
+ INSTALL (FILES src/msgpack.h src/msgpack.hpp DESTINATION include)
+-INSTALL (FILES msgpack.pc DESTINATION lib/pkgconfig)
++INSTALL (FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/msgpack.pc DESTINATION lib/pkgconfig)
+ 
+ # Doxygen
+ FIND_PACKAGE (Doxygen)
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmsgpack/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmsgpack/default.nix
index ab9dbd48ea4e..d9f4bfcc7508 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmsgpack/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmsgpack/default.nix
@@ -1,25 +1,16 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, autoconf, automake, libtool, ruby, scatterOutputHook }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "0.5.8";
+  version = "0.5.9";
   name = "libmsgpack-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/archive/cpp-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1h6k9kdbfavmw3by5kk3raszwa64hn9k8yw9rdhvl5m8g2lks89k";
+    sha256 = "0xy204srq5grng7p17hwdxpfzbsfrn89gi4c3k62a23p4f9z0szq";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ scatterOutputHook ];
-  buildInputs = [ autoconf automake libtool ruby ];
-
-  outputs = [ "out" "bin" ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    sed -i s,glibtoolize,libtoolize, ./bootstrap
-    ./bootstrap
-  '';
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  buildInputs = [ cmake ];
+  patches = [ ./CMakeLists.patch ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "MessagePack implementation for C and C++";