diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/as/asio/boost-1.89.patch b/pkgs/by-name/as/asio/boost-1.89.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a77f556b7f3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/as/asio/boost-1.89.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+diff --git a/src/examples/cpp11/Makefile.am b/src/examples/cpp11/Makefile.am
+index a132a469f..65eb90a6d 100644
+--- a/src/examples/cpp11/Makefile.am
++++ b/src/examples/cpp11/Makefile.am
+@@ -289,9 +289,9 @@ endif
+ 
+ if HAVE_BOOST_COROUTINE
+ spawn_echo_server_SOURCES = spawn/echo_server.cpp
+-spawn_echo_server_LDADD = $(LDADD) -lboost_coroutine -lboost_context -lboost_thread -lboost_chrono -lboost_system
++spawn_echo_server_LDADD = $(LDADD) -lboost_coroutine -lboost_context -lboost_thread -lboost_chrono
+ spawn_parallel_grep_SOURCES = spawn/parallel_grep.cpp
+-spawn_parallel_grep_LDADD = $(LDADD) -lboost_coroutine -lboost_context -lboost_thread -lboost_chrono -lboost_system
++spawn_parallel_grep_LDADD = $(LDADD) -lboost_coroutine -lboost_context -lboost_thread -lboost_chrono
+ endif
+ 
+ EXTRA_DIST = \
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/as/asio/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/as/asio/package.nix
index 01b982933956..952ae79565ef 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/as/asio/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/as/asio/package.nix
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
   sourceRoot = "${finalAttrs.src.name}/asio";
 
+  patches = [
+    # Linking against `boost_system` fails because the stub compiled library
+    # of Boost.System, which has been a header-only library since 1.69, was
+    # removed in 1.89.
+    # Upstream issue: https://github.com/chriskohlhoff/asio/issues/1716
+    ./boost-1.89.patch
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     autoreconfHook
     pkg-config