diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ya/yabai/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ya/yabai/package.nix
index 13cf79193ff1..8837ae986b08 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ya/yabai/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ya/yabai/package.nix
@@ -28,12 +28,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     installShellFiles
     xxd
+    # TODO: Clean up on `staging`.
+    llvmPackages.lld
   ];
 
   buildInputs = [
     apple-sdk_15
   ];
 
+  # TODO: Clean up on `staging`.
+  env.NIX_CFLAGS_LINK = "-fuse-ld=lld";
+
   # Upstream Makefile races clean-build against linking under parallel make.
   enableParallelBuilding = false;