diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/obliv-c/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/obliv-c/default.nix
index f1f9a38a198..1d9d973572c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/obliv-c/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/obliv-c/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, ocaml, libgcrypt, fetchFromGitHub, ocamlPackages, perl}:
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "obliv-c-${version}";
-  version = "0.0pre20161001";
+  version = "0.0pre20170827";
   buildInputs = [ ocaml ocamlPackages.findlib perl ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ libgcrypt ];
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "samee";
     repo = "obliv-c";
-    rev = "32d71fb46983aded604045e8cda7874d8fb160a2";
-    sha256 = "05bicvalsfabngvf41q02bcyzkibmyihj7naqd53kdq75xa1yf37";
+    rev = "9a6be5a5f44d341bc357055e11922f6a4c4c3b65";
+    sha256 = "0jz2ayadx62zv2b5ji947bkvw63axl4a2q70lwli86zgmcl390gf";
   };
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    patchShebangs .
+  '';
+
   preInstall = ''
     mkdir -p "$out/bin"
     cp bin/* "$out/bin"
@@ -23,6 +28,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     gcc $(ar t _build/libobliv.a | sed -e 's@^@_build/@') --shared -o _build/libobliv.so
     cp _build/lib*.a _build/lib*.so* "$out/lib"
   '';
+
   meta = {
     inherit version;
     description = ''A GCC wrapper that makes it easy to embed secure computation protocols inside regular C programs'';