diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix
index 53b2e4072ad..74f0fe2b83a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, nspr, perl, python, zip, bash }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, nspr, perl, python, zip }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   version = "17.0.0";
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
     # Test broken on ARM. Fedora disables it.
     # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130617/1041155.html
-    echo -e '#!${bash}/bin/bash\nexit 0' > config/find_vanilla_new_calls
+    echo -e '#!${stdenv.shell}\nexit 0' > config/find_vanilla_new_calls
 
     paxmark m shell/js17
     paxmark mr jsapi-tests/jsapi-tests