diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/mni_autoreg/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/mni_autoreg/default.nix
index b0ec8a70e149..d7882bd4854e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/mni_autoreg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/mni_autoreg/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, makeWrapper, perlPackages, libminc }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, cmake, makeWrapper, perlPackages, libminc }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "mni_autoreg";
@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0axl069nv57vmb2wvqq7s9v3bfxwspzmk37bxm4973ai1irgppjq";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # Pull upstream workaround for -fno-common toolchains:
+    #  https://github.com/BIC-MNI/mni_autoreg/pull/28
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "fno-common.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/BIC-MNI/mni_autoreg/commit/06adfacbd84369ea3bcc4376596ac1c0f2e49af9.patch";
+      sha256 = "004sdrbx9kcj1qqwjly6p03svakl0x2sbv83salyg63fv67jynx8";
+    })
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake makeWrapper ];
   buildInputs = [ libminc ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = with perlPackages; [ perl GetoptTabular MNI-Perllib ];