diff --git a/pkgs/development/web/nodejs/nodejs.nix b/pkgs/development/web/nodejs/nodejs.nix
index 343be8e14791..6ce440b867bd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/web/nodejs/nodejs.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/web/nodejs/nodejs.nix
@@ -347,9 +347,7 @@ let
 
       dontDisableStatic = true;
 
-      configureScript = writeScript "nodejs-configure" ''
-        exec ${python.executable} configure.py "$@"
-      '';
+      configureScript = "${python.interpreter} configure.py";
 
       # In order to support unsupported cross configurations, we copy some intermediate executables
       # from a native build and replace all the build-system tools with a script which simply touches