diff --git a/docs/compiling.rst b/docs/compiling.rst
index 2b543be0be..4294fb9334 100644
--- a/docs/compiling.rst
+++ b/docs/compiling.rst
@@ -582,13 +582,13 @@ using ``pip`` or ``conda``. If it hasn't, you can also manually specify
 ``-I <path-to-pybind11>/include`` together with the Python includes path
 ``python3-config --includes``.
 
-On macOS: the build command is almost the same but it also requires passing
-the ``-undefined dynamic_lookup`` flag so as to ignore missing symbols when
-building the module:
+On macOS: the build command is almost the same but it also requires passing the
+``-undefined dynamic_lookup -Wl,no_fixup_chains`` flag to ignore missing symbols
+when building the module:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    $ c++ -O3 -Wall -shared -std=c++11 -undefined dynamic_lookup $(python3 -m pybind11 --includes) example.cpp -o example$(python3-config --extension-suffix)
+    $ c++ -O3 -Wall -shared -std=c++11 -undefined dynamic_lookup -Wl,no_fixup_chains $(python3 -m pybind11 --includes) example.cpp -o example$(python3-config --extension-suffix)
 
 In general, it is advisable to include several additional build parameters
 that can considerably reduce the size of the created binary. Refer to section
diff --git a/tools/pybind11Common.cmake b/tools/pybind11Common.cmake
index 0c985bc8e5..f83485881d 100644
--- a/tools/pybind11Common.cmake
+++ b/tools/pybind11Common.cmake
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ if(CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS 3.13)
   set_property(
     TARGET pybind11::python_link_helper
     APPEND
-    PROPERTY INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "$<$<PLATFORM_ID:Darwin>:-undefined dynamic_lookup>")
+    PROPERTY INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES
+             "$<$<PLATFORM_ID:Darwin>:-undefined dynamic_lookup -no_fixup_chains>")
 else()
   # link_options was added in 3.13+
   # This is safer, because you are ensured the deduplication pass in CMake will not consider
@@ -83,7 +84,8 @@ else()
   set_property(
     TARGET pybind11::python_link_helper
     APPEND
-    PROPERTY INTERFACE_LINK_OPTIONS "$<$<PLATFORM_ID:Darwin>:LINKER:-undefined,dynamic_lookup>")
+    PROPERTY INTERFACE_LINK_OPTIONS
+             "$<$<PLATFORM_ID:Darwin>:LINKER:-undefined,dynamic_lookup,-no_fixup_chains>")
 endif()
 
 # ------------------------ Windows extras -------------------------