diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/default.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/default.nix
index 305d9220685..7cbdf6e30ac 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/default.nix
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ rec {
     url = http://losser.st-lab.cs.uu.nl/~armijn/.nix/glibc-2.3.3-static-2.tar.gz;
     pkgname = "glibc";
     patchelf = ./patchelf-static/patchelf;
+    find = findutils;
     postprocess = ./scripts/add-symlink.sh;
     extra = linuxHeaders;
     extra2 = coreutils;
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/scripts/add-symlink.sh b/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/scripts/add-symlink.sh
index 4241d237d9d..75805a900d3 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/scripts/add-symlink.sh
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/scripts/add-symlink.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 $extra2/bin/chmod u+w $out/include
 (cd $out/include && $extra2/bin/ln -s $extra/include/* .) || exit 1
 
-$patchelf --interpreter $out/lib/ld-linux.so.2 *
+cd $out
+$findutils/bin/find . | $findutils/bin/xargs $patchelf --interpreter $out/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --shrink-rpath