diff --git a/srcpkgs/open-vm-tools/patches/werror.patch b/srcpkgs/open-vm-tools/patches/werror.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2bc835f13f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/open-vm-tools/patches/werror.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- configure.ac	2019-02-20 10:15:30.000000000 +0000
++++ -	2019-08-01 02:24:35.995711725 +0000
+@@ -1218,7 +1218,7 @@
+ 
+ ### General flags / actions
+ CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall"
+-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror"
++#CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror"
+ 
+ # Suppress warnings from clang when taking the address of packed struct
+ # member fields when compiling hgfsServer.c
diff --git a/srcpkgs/open-vm-tools/template b/srcpkgs/open-vm-tools/template
index 0405ea02eaa..e2885c56592 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/open-vm-tools/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/open-vm-tools/template
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ license="GPL-2.0-only, LGPL-2.1-only"
 homepage="https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools"
 distfiles="https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/download/stable-${version}/open-vm-tools-${version}-${_build}.tar.gz"
 checksum=a3c02595c802680be258d6249513c76502d383a59597079b10984bb9136dbef5
-broken="https://build.voidlinux.org/builders/x86_64_builder/builds/19098/steps/shell_3/logs/stdio"
 
 build_options="pam x11"
 build_options_default="pam x11"