diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/gcal/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/gcal/default.nix
index f5eb6e188b7a..713000d3f69a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/gcal/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/gcal/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses  }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, fetchpatch }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "gcal";
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1av11zkfirbixn05hyq4xvilin0ncddfjqzc4zd9pviyp506rdci";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gcal/raw/master/f/gcal-glibc-no-libio.patch";
+      sha256 = "0l4nw9kgzsay32rsdwvs75pbp4fhx6pfm85paynfbd20cdm2n2kv";
+    })
+  ];
+
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   buildInputs = [ ncurses ];