diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gbenchmark/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gbenchmark/default.nix
index be39b0d7cbdd..4aea6433c813 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gbenchmark/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gbenchmark/default.nix
@@ -2,31 +2,40 @@
 , stdenv
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , cmake
+, ninja
 , gtest
 , prometheus-cpp
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "gbenchmark";
-  version = "1.8.5";
+  version = "1.9.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "google";
     repo = "benchmark";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-c46Xna/t21WKaFa7n4ieIacsrxJ+15uGNYWCUVuUhsI=";
+    hash = "sha256-5cl1PIjhXaL58kSyWZXRWLq6BITS2BwEovPhwvk2e18=";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ninja ];
+
+  cmakeFlags = [
+    # We ran into issues with gtest 1.8.5 conditioning on
+    # `#if __has_cpp_attribute(maybe_unused)`, which was, for some
+    # reason, going through even when C++14 was being used and
+    # breaking the build on Darwin by triggering warnings about using
+    # C++17 features.
+    #
+    # This might be a problem with our Clang, as it does not reproduce
+    # with Xcode, but since `-Werror` is painful for us anyway and
+    # upstream exposes a CMake flag to turn it off, we just use that.
+    (lib.cmakeBool "BENCHMARK_ENABLE_WERROR" false)
+  ];
 
   postPatch = ''
     cp -r ${gtest.src} googletest
     chmod -R u+w googletest
-
-    # https://github.com/google/benchmark/issues/1396
-    substituteInPlace cmake/benchmark.pc.in \
-      --replace '$'{prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR@ @CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR@ \
-      --replace '$'{prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR@ @CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_INCLUDEDIR@
   '';
 
   # Tests fail on 32-bit due to not enough precision