diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/4.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/4.x.nix
index 4352e7f05c29..a797960b2f03 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/4.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/4.x.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,23 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, libuuid, pkgconfig, libsodium }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, asciidoc }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "zeromq-${version}";
   version = "4.2.2";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/releases/download/v${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0syzwsiqblimfjb32fr6hswhdvp3cmbk0pgm7ayxaigmkv5g88sv";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "zeromq";
+    repo = "libzmq";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "09317g4zkalp3k11x6vbidcm4qf02ciml1wxgp3742lrlgcblgxy";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-  buildInputs = [ libuuid libsodium ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake asciidoc ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    sed -i 's,''${PACKAGE_PREFIX_DIR}/,,g' ZeroMQConfig.cmake.in
+  '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     branch = "4";