diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/lmms/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/lmms/default.nix
index 5195ddd42a1..46d5017c4fe 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/lmms/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/lmms/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, SDL, alsaLib, cmake, fftwSinglePrec, jackaudio, libogg
-, libsamplerate, libsndfile, pkgconfig, pulseaudio, qt4
+, libsamplerate, libsndfile, pkgconfig, pulseaudio, qt4, freetype
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation  rec {
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation  rec {
     libsndfile pkgconfig pulseaudio qt4
   ];
 
+  # work around broken build system of 0.4.*
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-I${freetype}/include/freetype2";
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Linux MultiMedia Studio";
     homepage = "http://lmms.sourceforge.net";