diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3628f62..c9caf2c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Fixed
+* `buildPackage` is more tolerant of misbehaving proc macros which write to
+  stdout during the build
+
 ## [0.11.1] - 2023-01-21
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/checks/default.nix b/checks/default.nix
index 2c1ef08..3e9c2c7 100644
--- a/checks/default.nix
+++ b/checks/default.nix
@@ -126,6 +126,22 @@ in
       touch $out
     '';
 
+  # https://github.com/ipetkov/crane/pull/234
+  nonJsonCargoBuildLog =
+    let
+      nonJson = ''
+        db_id attr "field_id" Attribute { pound_token: Pound, style: Outer, bracket_token: Bracket, path: Path { leading_colon: None, segments: [PathSegment { ident: Ident { ident: "db_id", span: #0 bytes(8250..8255) }, arguments: None }] }, tokens: TokenStream [] }
+      '';
+    in
+    myLib.buildPackage {
+      src = myLib.cleanCargoSource ./simple;
+      buildPhaseCargoCommand = ''
+        cargoBuildLog=$(mktemp cargoBuildLogXXXX.json)
+        cargoWithProfile build --message-format json-render-diagnostics >"$cargoBuildLog"
+        echo "${nonJson}" >>"$cargoBuildLog"
+      '';
+    };
+
   # https://github.com/ipetkov/crane/discussions/203
   dependencyBuildScriptPerms = myLib.cargoClippy {
     src = ./dependencyBuildScriptPerms;
diff --git a/lib/setupHooks/installFromCargoBuildLogHook.sh b/lib/setupHooks/installFromCargoBuildLogHook.sh
index b009430..ad105ae 100644
--- a/lib/setupHooks/installFromCargoBuildLogHook.sh
+++ b/lib/setupHooks/installFromCargoBuildLogHook.sh
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ function installFromCargoBuildLog() (
 
   echo searching for bins/libs to install from cargo build log at ${log}
 
+  local logs
+  logs=$(jq -R 'fromjson?' <"${log}")
+
   local select_non_test='select(.reason == "compiler-artifact" and .profile.test == false)'
   local select_bins="${select_non_test} | .executable | select(.!= null)"
   local select_lib_files="${select_non_test}"'
@@ -29,12 +32,12 @@ function installFromCargoBuildLog() (
     rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "${loc}"
   }
 
-  jq -r <"${log}" "${select_bins}" | installArtifacts "${dest}/bin"
+  echo "${logs}" | jq -r "${select_bins}" | installArtifacts "${dest}/bin"
 
   command cargo metadata --format-version 1 | jq '.workspace_members[]' | (
     while IFS= read -r ws_member; do
       local select_member_libs="select(.package_id == ${ws_member}) | ${select_lib_files}"
-      jq -r <"${log}" "${select_member_libs}" | installArtifacts "${dest}/lib"
+      echo "${logs}" | jq -r "${select_member_libs}" | installArtifacts "${dest}/lib"
     done
   )