diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/csound/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/csound/default.nix
index afca63a2a8a2..1cc0e56fe7e6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/csound/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/csound/default.nix
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  hardening_format = false;
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = mirror://sourceforge/csound/Csound6.04.tar.gz;
     sha256 = "1030w38lxdwjz1irr32m9cl0paqmgr02lab2m7f7j1yihwxj1w0g";