diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/goofys/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/goofys/default.nix
index 16c555473f3..10ea061f860 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/goofys/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/goofys/default.nix
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ buildGoModule {
     description = "A high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go.";
     license = [ lib.licenses.mit ];
     maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.adisbladis ];
-    broken = stdenv.isDarwin; # needs to update gopsutil to at least v3.21.3 to include https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/pull/1042
+    # does not build with go 1.17
+    broken = true;
   };
 
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c637fdcd666..7bb3f5b5746 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6512,9 +6512,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   go-mtpfs = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/go-mtpfs { };
 
-  goofys = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/goofys {
-    buildGoModule = buildGo116Module;
-  };
+  goofys = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/goofys { };
 
   go-sct = callPackage ../tools/X11/go-sct { };