diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ts/tsocks/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ts/tsocks/package.nix
index 2619380fdafb..03faca1336f4 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ts/tsocks/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ts/tsocks/package.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   preConfigure = ''
     sed -i -e "s,\\\/usr,"$(echo $out|sed -e "s,\\/,\\\\\\\/,g")",g" tsocks
+    substituteInPlace configure \
+      --replace-fail "main(){return(0);}" "int main(){return(0);}"
     substituteInPlace tsocks --replace /usr $out
   '';