diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/cdrtools/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/cdrtools/default.nix
index 455ff8d46b8..d1b3b284052 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/cdrtools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/cdrtools/default.nix
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "cdrtools-2.01";
-  
-  configurePhase = "prefix=$out";  
-  
+
+  configurePhase = "prefix=$out";
+
   #hack, I'm getting "chown: invalid user: `bin" error, so replace chown by a nop dummy script
   preInstall = ''
     mkdir "$TMP/bin"
@@ -14,16 +14,18 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       PATH="$TMP/bin:$PATH"
     done
   '';
-  
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/cdrtools/${name}.tar.bz2";
     md5 = "d44a81460e97ae02931c31188fe8d3fd";
   };
-  
+
   patches = [./cdrtools-2.01-install.patch];
 
   meta = {
-    description = "Highly portable CD/DVD/BluRay command line recording software (deprecated; use cdrkit instead)";
-    homepage = http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/; # berlios shut down; I found no better link
+    homepage = http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/;
+    description = "Highly portable CD/DVD/BluRay command line recording software";
+    broken = true;              # Build errors, probably because the source
+                                # can't deal with recent versions of gcc.
   };
 }