diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
index 201826b1e897..78cdf27dce9b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
@@ -59947,7 +59947,7 @@ self: {
 
   "highlighting-kate" = callPackage
     ({ mkDerivation, base, blaze-html, containers, Diff, directory
-     , filepath, mtl, parsec, process, regex-pcre, utf8-string
+     , filepath, mtl, parsec, pcre-light, process, utf8-string
      }:
      mkDerivation {
        pname = "highlighting-kate";
@@ -59956,14 +59956,14 @@ self: {
        isLibrary = true;
        isExecutable = true;
        buildDepends = [
-         base blaze-html containers filepath mtl parsec regex-pcre
+         base blaze-html containers filepath mtl parsec pcre-light
          utf8-string
        ];
        testDepends = [
          base blaze-html containers Diff directory filepath process
        ];
+       configureFlags = [ "-fpcre-light" ];
        jailbreak = true;
-       prePatch = "sed -i -e 's|regex-pcre-builtin >= .*|regex-pcre|' highlighting-kate.cabal";
        homepage = "http://github.com/jgm/highlighting-kate";
        description = "Syntax highlighting";
        license = "GPL";