diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libossp-uuid/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libossp-uuid/default.nix
index ddfc2a5132c7..952509acc2ee 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libossp-uuid/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libossp-uuid/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256= "11a615225baa5f8bb686824423f50e4427acd3f70d394765bdff32801f0fd5b0";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isFreeBSD "--with-pic";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "ac_cv_va_copy=yes"
+  ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isFreeBSD "--with-pic";
+
+  patches = [ ./shtool.patch ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libossp-uuid/shtool.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/libossp-uuid/shtool.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f0c7cc485f50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libossp-uuid/shtool.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/shtool	2008-07-05 05:43:08.000000000 +0800
++++ b/shtool	2018-07-25 15:45:40.559587471 +0800
+@@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@
+             if [ ".$opt_t" = .yes ]; then
+                 echo "strip $dsttmp" 1>&2
+             fi
+-            strip $dsttmp || shtool_exit $?
++            $STRIP $dsttmp || shtool_exit $?
+         fi
+         if [ ".$opt_o" != . ]; then
+             if [ ".$opt_t" = .yes ]; then
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/default.nix
index a727b60dd9d4..4eb8d717309d 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, glibc, fetchurl, zlib, readline, libossp_uuid, openssl, libxml2, makeWrapper }:
+{ lib, stdenv, glibc, fetchurl, zlib, readline, libossp_uuid, openssl, libxml2, makeWrapper, tzdata }:
 
 let
 
@@ -22,14 +22,16 @@ let
 
     makeFlags = [ "world" ];
 
+    NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = [ "-I${libxml2.dev}/include/libxml2" ];
+
     configureFlags = [
       "--with-openssl"
       "--with-libxml"
       "--sysconfdir=/etc"
       "--libdir=$(lib)/lib"
-    ]
-      ++ lib.optional (stdenv.isDarwin)  "--with-uuid=e2fs"
-      ++ lib.optional (!stdenv.isDarwin) "--with-ossp-uuid";
+      "--with-system-tzdata=${tzdata}"
+      (if stdenv.isDarwin then "--with-uuid=e2fs" else "--with-ossp-uuid")
+    ];
 
     patches =
       [ (if atLeast "9.4" then ./disable-resolve_symlinks-94.patch else ./disable-resolve_symlinks.patch)