diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/eliom/camlp4.patch b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/eliom/camlp4.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 06d5ba1b7ed..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/eliom/camlp4.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- a/src/_tags	2014-10-01 16:19:35.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/src/_tags	2014-11-09 16:55:34.470663377 +0000
-@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
- <lib/server/monitor/*.ml{,i}>:I(src/lib/server)
- 
- <syntax/pa_*.*>: syntax(camlp4o),package(camlp4.quotations.o,camlp4.extend,bytes)
--<syntax/pa_*.ml{,i}>: I(+camlp4/Camlp4Parsers)
-+<syntax/pa_*.ml{,i}>: use_camlp4_full
- 
- <ppx/**/*>: package(ppx_tools, compiler-libs.common, ppx_tools.metaquot)
- 
-
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/eliom/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/eliom/default.nix
index 25e75ceeba3..9a9ea28da53 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/eliom/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/eliom/default.nix
@@ -1,33 +1,35 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchzip, which, ocsigen_server, ocsigen_deriving, ocaml, lwt_camlp4,
+{ stdenv, fetchzip, which, ocsigen_server, ocaml,
   lwt_react,
   opaline, ppx_tools, ppx_deriving, findlib
+, ppx_tools_versioned
 , js_of_ocaml-ocamlbuild, js_of_ocaml-ppx, js_of_ocaml-ppx_deriving_json
 , js_of_ocaml-lwt
 , js_of_ocaml-tyxml
 , lwt_ppx
 }:
 
+if !stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast ocaml.version "4.07"
+then throw "eliom is not available for OCaml ${ocaml.version}"
+else
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec
 {
   pname = "eliom";
-  version = "6.7.0";
+  version = "6.8.0";
 
   src = fetchzip {
     url = "https://github.com/ocsigen/eliom/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0mrlpvjaihpsf2xr6p1gs0sz4cwzkknf5b1s32bhmqq5qzsh4j8k";
+    sha256 = "0di4q0wzbnk9sxlaj97ivghzh8qvjb8n17h80y4nmqhys97pldif";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./camlp4.patch ];
-
   buildInputs = [ ocaml which findlib js_of_ocaml-ocamlbuild js_of_ocaml-ppx_deriving_json opaline ppx_tools
-    ocsigen_deriving
+    ppx_tools_versioned
   ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     js_of_ocaml-lwt
     js_of_ocaml-ppx
     js_of_ocaml-tyxml
-    lwt_camlp4
     lwt_ppx
     lwt_react
     ocsigen_server
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://ocsigen.org/eliom/;
-    description = "Ocaml Framework for programming Web sites and client/server Web applications";
+    description = "OCaml Framework for programming Web sites and client/server Web applications";
 
     longDescription =''Eliom is a framework for programming Web sites
     and client/server Web applications. It introduces new concepts to
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-start/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-start/default.nix
index 1287c9b80b5..a8eea5b0c07 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-start/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-start/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ocaml, findlib, ocsigen-toolkit, eliom, ocaml_pcre, pgocaml, macaque, safepass, yojson, ocsigen_deriving, ocsigen_server
-, js_of_ocaml-camlp4
+, js_of_ocaml-camlp4, lwt_camlp4
 , resource-pooling
 }:
 
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "ocaml${ocaml.version}-ocsigen-start-${version}";
   version = "1.8.0";
 
-  buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib eliom js_of_ocaml-camlp4 ];
+  buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib eliom js_of_ocaml-camlp4 lwt_camlp4 ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ pgocaml macaque safepass ocaml_pcre ocsigen-toolkit yojson ocsigen_deriving ocsigen_server resource-pooling ];
 
   patches = [ ./templates-dir.patch ];