diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/lo/log4cplus/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/lo/log4cplus/package.nix
index 0dc8051c35f2..8dd86f47046e 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/lo/log4cplus/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/lo/log4cplus/package.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,20 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, pkg-config }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "log4cplus";
-  version = "2.1.1";
+  version = "2.1.2";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/log4cplus/log4cplus-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "sha256-ZZfeeCd15OD7qP3K2TjDcJ/YOagITEtu3648xQRuJog=";
+    hash = "sha256-JFDfu0qzXdLJ5k2MdQxRS/cpO4HY8yr3qxJEF/cK360=";
   };
 
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  strictDeps = true;
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://log4cplus.sourceforge.net/";
     description = "Port the log4j library from Java to C++";