diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/xsd/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/xsd/default.nix
index 7541ee42704..3388666f46b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/xsd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/xsd/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, xercesc }:
 
 let
-  fixed_paths = ''LDFLAGS="-L${xercesc}/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I${xercesc}/include"'';
 in
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "xsd";
   version = "4.0.0";
 
@@ -14,20 +13,22 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   patches = [ ./xsdcxx.patch ];
 
-  configurePhase = ''
+  postPatch = ''
     patchShebangs .
   '';
 
-  buildPhase = ''
-    make ${fixed_paths}
-  '';
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  buildFlags = [
+    "LDFLAGS=-L${xercesc}/lib"
+    "CPPFLAGS=-I${xercesc}/include"
+  ];
+  installFlags = buildFlags ++ [
+    "install_prefix=${placeholder "out"}"
+  ];
 
   buildInputs = [ xercesc ];
 
-  installPhase = ''
-    make ${fixed_paths} install_prefix="$out" install
-  '';
-
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://www.codesynthesis.com/products/xsd";
     description = "An open-source, cross-platform W3C XML Schema to C++ data binding compiler";