diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.nix
index da5fc193a222..9c47ebe79b6e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   postUnpack = "sourceRoot=\${sourceRoot}/js/src";
 
+  patches = [
+    (fetchurl {
+      name = "jsoptparse-gcc7.patch";
+      url = "https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mozjs17.git/plain/"
+          + "mozjs17.0.0-gcc7.patch?id=43b846629a299f";
+      sha256 = "17plyaq0jwf9wli4zlgvh4ri3zyk6nj1fiakh3wnd37nsl90raf9";
+    })
+  ];
+  patchFlags = "-p3";
+
   postPatch = ''
     # Fixes an issue with version detection under perl 5.22.x
     sed -i 's/(defined\((@TEMPLATE_FILE)\))/\1/' config/milestone.pl