diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
index 676fbd00688..570bb6785df 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ let
       # Work around "stdenv-darwin-boot-2 is not allowed to refer to path /nix/store/...-expand-response-params.c"
       cp "$src" expand-response-params.c
       "$CC" -std=c99 -O3 -o "$out" expand-response-params.c
+      strip -S $out
+      ${optionalString hostPlatform.isLinux "patchelf --shrink-rpath $out"}
     '';
   } else "";