diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/ed/generic.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/ed/generic.nix
index 70ec6badf25e..70ffdb4c4af9 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/ed/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/ed/generic.nix
@@ -13,12 +13,14 @@
 , stdenv
 , fetchurl
 , lzip
+, runtimeShellPackage
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   inherit pname version src patches;
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ lzip ];
+  buildInputs = [ runtimeShellPackage ];
 
   configureFlags = [
     "CC=${stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc"
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
index baff7f030387..56803742d605 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 , fetchurl
 , makeWrapper
 , xz
+, runtimeShellPackage
 }:
 
 # Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  buildInputs = [ runtimeShellPackage];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ xz.bin makeWrapper ];
 
   makeFlags = [
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix
index d85880e82e15..8857fa29d1c6 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 { lib, stdenv, fetchurl
+, runtimeShellPackage
 # TODO: links -lsigsegv but loses the reference for some reason
 , withSigsegv ? (false && stdenv.hostPlatform.system != "x86_64-cygwin"), libsigsegv
 , interactive ? false, readline
@@ -39,7 +40,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ]
     ++ lib.optional (doCheck && stdenv.isLinux) glibcLocales;
 
-  buildInputs = lib.optional withSigsegv libsigsegv
+  buildInputs = [
+    runtimeShellPackage
+  ] ++ lib.optional withSigsegv libsigsegv
     ++ lib.optional interactive readline
     ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin locale;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
index 5df81274c6a5..55e0a97f3594 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, glibcLocales, fetchurl, pcre2, libiconv, perl }:
+{ lib, stdenv, glibcLocales, fetchurl, pcre2, libiconv, perl, runtimeShellPackage }:
 
 # Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
 # cannot use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   nativeCheckInputs = [ perl glibcLocales ];
   outputs = [ "out" "info" ]; # the man pages are rather small
 
-  buildInputs = [ pcre2 libiconv ];
+  buildInputs = [ pcre2 libiconv runtimeShellPackage ];
 
   # cygwin: FAIL: multibyte-white-space
   # freebsd: FAIL mb-non-UTF8-performance