diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/dale/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/dale/default.nix
index 6d9adaa15181..3538f85a75f8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/dale/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/dale/default.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
   buildInputs = [ cmake pkgconfig libffi llvm_35 ]
              ++ stdenv.lib.optional doCheck perl;
 
+  patches = [ ./link-llvm.patch ];
+
   inherit doCheck;
 
   checkTarget = "tests";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/dale/link-llvm.patch b/pkgs/development/compilers/dale/link-llvm.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3facec91874f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/dale/link-llvm.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- dale-39e16d8e89fa070de65a673d4462e783d530f95a-src.org/CMakeLists.txt	2017-06-22 08:01:05.839531242 +0100
++++ dale-39e16d8e89fa070de65a673d4462e783d530f95a-src/CMakeLists.txt	2017-06-22 07:59:11.777566801 +0100
+@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
+ execute_process (COMMAND ${LLVM_CONFIG} --libs
+                  OUTPUT_VARIABLE LLVM_LIBS
+                  OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
++STRING(REGEX REPLACE " " ";" LLVM_LIBS "${LLVM_LIBS}")
+ if (${D_LLVM_VERSION_MINOR} GREATER 4)
+     execute_process (COMMAND ${LLVM_CONFIG} --system-libs
+                      OUTPUT_VARIABLE LLVM_SYSTEM_LIBS