diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/sqitch/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/sqitch/default.nix
index bef21abc0f0..c4c8e065bc5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/sqitch/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/sqitch/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "sqitch-0.999";
   buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-  propagatedNativeBuildInputs = [ sqitchModule ];
   builder = writeScript (name + "-builder.sh") ''
     . ${stdenv}/setup
     mkdir -p $out/bin
@@ -12,12 +11,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     fixupPhase
     wrapProgram $out/bin/sqitch \
       --prefix PERL5LIB : \
-      "$(for i in "$propagatedNativeBuildInputs" ; do
-           for j in $(cat $i/nix-support/propagated-native-build-inputs) ; do
-             echo -n "$j"/lib/perl5/site_perl:
-           done
+      "$(for i in $(cat ${sqitchModule}/nix-support/propagated-native-build-inputs) ; do
+           echo -n "$i"/lib/perl5/site_perl:
          done
-         echo "$propagatedNativeBuildInputs"/lib/perl5/site_perl
+         echo ${sqitchModule}/lib/perl5/site_perl
         )"
   '';
 }