diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/nano/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/nano/default.nix
index 35396b96ea75..dcb124bcb125 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/nano/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/nano/default.nix
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0z5sxji8jh8sh0g3inbzndhsrbm4qyqlvjrxl5wkxbr61lnxa5k3";
   };
 
+  patches = [ ./nano-2.9.1-darwin.patch ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [ texinfo ] ++ optional enableNls gettext;
   buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
 
@@ -42,6 +44,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     cp ${nixSyntaxHighlight}/nix.nanorc $out/share/nano/
   '';
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = {
     homepage = https://www.nano-editor.org/;
     description = "A small, user-friendly console text editor";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/nano/nano-2.9.1-darwin.patch b/pkgs/applications/editors/nano/nano-2.9.1-darwin.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d3a630d4486e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/nano/nano-2.9.1-darwin.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+--- a/lib/stat.c
++++ b/lib/stat.c
+@@ -48,4 +48,6 @@ orig_stat (const char *filename, struct stat *buf)
+ #include "sys/stat.h"
+ 
++#include "stat-time.h"
++
+ #include <errno.h>
+ #include <limits.h>