diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/procps/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/procps/default.nix
index 8fdc141916b8..5bd8e6de460f 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/procps/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/procps/default.nix
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     url = http://procps.sourceforge.net/procps-3.2.6.tar.gz;
     md5 = "7ce39ea27d7b3da0e8ad74dd41d06783";
   };
-  patches = [./makefile.patch ./procps-no-kill.patch];
+  patches = [./makefile.patch ./procps-build.patch];
   buildInputs = [ncurses];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/procps/procps-build.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/procps/procps-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fa08464c2062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/procps/procps-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+diff -ruN procps-3.2.6/Makefile procps-3.2.6.new/Makefile
+--- procps-3.2.6/Makefile	2005-10-30 07:27:04.000000000 +0100
++++ procps-3.2.6.new/Makefile	2005-12-13 16:47:00.000000000 +0100
+@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
+ usr/lib                  := $(DESTDIR)/usr/$(lib64)/
+ usr/include              := $(DESTDIR)/usr/include/
+ 
+-#SKIP     := $(bin)kill $(man1)kill.1
++SKIP     := $(bin)kill $(man1)kill.1
+ 
+ BINFILES := $(usr/bin)uptime $(usr/bin)tload $(usr/bin)free $(usr/bin)w \
+             $(usr/bin)top $(usr/bin)vmstat $(usr/bin)watch $(usr/bin)skill \
+@@ -127,26 +127,26 @@
+ # produce separate executables for ppc and ppc64, s390 and s390x,
+ # i386 and x86-64, mips and mips64, sparc and sparc64, and so on.
+ # Failure to do so will cause data corruption.
+-m64 := $(call check_gcc,-m64,$(call check_gcc,-mabi=64,))
+-ALL_CFLAGS += $(m64)
++#m64 := $(call check_gcc,-m64,$(call check_gcc,-mabi=64,))
++#ALL_CFLAGS += $(m64)
+ 
+-ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,)
+-ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-Wpadded,)
+-ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-Wstrict-aliasing,)
++#ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,)
++#ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-Wpadded,)
++#ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-Wstrict-aliasing,)
+ 
+ # Adding -fno-gcse might be good for those files which
+ # use computed goto.
+ #ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-fno-gcse,)
+ 
+ # if not debugging, enable things that could confuse gdb
+-ifeq (,$(findstring -g,$(filter -g%,$(CFLAGS))))
+-ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-fweb,)
+-ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-frename-registers,)
+-ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-fomit-frame-pointer,)
++#ifeq (,$(findstring -g,$(filter -g%,$(CFLAGS))))
++#ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-fweb,)
++#ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-frename-registers,)
++#ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-fomit-frame-pointer,)
+ endif
+ 
+ # in case -O3 is enabled, avoid bloat
+-ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-fno-inline-functions,)
++#ALL_CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-fno-inline-functions,)
+ 
+ endif
+ endif
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/procps/procps-no-kill.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/procps/procps-no-kill.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index cf8be3906791..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/procps/procps-no-kill.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -ruN procps-3.2.6/Makefile procps-3.2.6.new/Makefile
---- procps-3.2.6/Makefile	2005-10-30 07:27:04.000000000 +0100
-+++ procps-3.2.6.new/Makefile	2005-12-13 16:11:40.000000000 +0100
-@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
- usr/lib                  := $(DESTDIR)/usr/$(lib64)/
- usr/include              := $(DESTDIR)/usr/include/
- 
--#SKIP     := $(bin)kill $(man1)kill.1
-+SKIP     := $(bin)kill $(man1)kill.1 $(usr/bin)uptime $(man1)uptime.1
- 
- BINFILES := $(usr/bin)uptime $(usr/bin)tload $(usr/bin)free $(usr/bin)w \
-             $(usr/bin)top $(usr/bin)vmstat $(usr/bin)watch $(usr/bin)skill \