diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
index ad09cdc6eb33..5119225d9ae6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "patchelf-0.9";
+  name = "patchelf-0.11";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://nixos.org/releases/patchelf/${name}/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "a0f65c1ba148890e9f2f7823f4bedf7ecad5417772f64f994004f59a39014f83";
+    sha256 = "16ms3ijcihb88j3x6cl8cbvhia72afmfcphczb9cfwr0gbc22chx";
   };
 
   setupHook = [ ./setup-hook.sh ];
 
-  doCheck = false; # fails 8 out of 24 tests, problems when loading libc.so.6
+  # fails 8 out of 24 tests, problems when loading libc.so.6
+  doCheck = stdenv.name == "stdenv-linux";
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/blob/master/README";