diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/guile/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/guile/default.nix
index 07ea14e66546..a4cf2605d491 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/guile/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/guile/default.nix
@@ -76,6 +76,6 @@
  then {
    # XXX: Thread support is currently broken on FreeBSD (namely the
    # `SCM_I_IS_THREAD' assertion in `scm_spawn_thread' is hit.)
-   configureFlags = [ "--disable-threads" ];
+   configureFlags = [ "--without-threads" ];
  }
  else {}))