diff --git a/srcpkgs/mathcomp/patches/PR174.patch b/srcpkgs/mathcomp/patches/PR174.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fd60a615361
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/mathcomp/patches/PR174.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From bda1aa9d494e4c92374db32f47e456ff9cd35540 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jason Gross <jgross@mit.edu>
+Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:05:45 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] Enable parallel build, fix #88
+
+Apparently, the jobserver flags don't show up until we're actually
+executing a rule.  So rather than save the old flags, we instead record
+whether or not we've seen -B before adding it (actually, whether we've
+seen -B or B, since it seems that make stores B rather than -B in
+MAKEFLAGS?), and then, later, we filter out B and -B only if we didn't
+see them before we added them.
+---
+ mathcomp/Makefile | 4 +++-
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- mathcomp/Makefile
++++ mathcomp/Makefile
+@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ else
+ COQDEP=$(COQBIN)coqdep
+ endif
+ 
+-OLD_MAKEFLAGS:=$(MAKEFLAGS)
++HAS_B:=$(filter -B B,$(MAKEFLAGS))
++# OLD_MAKEFLAGS must use =, not :=, to capture MAKEFLAGS at call time
++OLD_MAKEFLAGS=$(if $(HAS_B),$(MAKEFLAGS),$(filter-out -B B,$(MAKEFLAGS)))
+ MAKEFLAGS+=-B
+ 
+ .DEFAULT_GOAL := all
diff --git a/srcpkgs/mathcomp/template b/srcpkgs/mathcomp/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..73f1761025d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/mathcomp/template
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Template file for 'mathcomp'
+pkgname=mathcomp
+version=1.6.4
+revision=1
+wrksrc="math-comp-mathcomp-${version}"
+build_wrksrc="mathcomp"
+build_style=gnu-makefile
+hostmakedepends="coq"
+short_desc="The Mathematical Components Library for the Coq proof assistant"
+maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
+license="CeCILL-B"
+homepage="https://github.com/math-comp/math-comp"
+distfiles="https://github.com/math-comp/math-comp/archive/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=c672a4237f708b5f03f1feed9de37f98ef5c331819047e1f71b5762dcd92b262
+nocross=yes
+
+do_install() {
+	make install DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}" 'COQLIB:=$(shell coqtop -where)/'
+	vlicense ../CeCILL-B
+}