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