diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/physics/sherpa/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/physics/sherpa/default.nix
index d863964ad90a..c674c0cbb2f2 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/physics/sherpa/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/physics/sherpa/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  configureFlags = "--with-sqlite3=${sqlite.dev}";
+
   meta = {
     description = "Simulation of High-Energy Reactions of PArticles in lepton-lepton, lepton-photon, photon-photon, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions";
     license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;