diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libxslt/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libxslt/package.nix
index e0303ba11235..f8a8fafced82 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libxslt/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/li/libxslt/package.nix
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  preFixup = ''
+    # xslt-config will end up in $dev, so we must patch its shebangs for the build host
+    patchShebangs --build $bin/bin/xslt-config
+  '';
+
   postFixup = ''
     moveToOutput bin/xslt-config "$dev"
     moveToOutput lib/xsltConf.sh "$dev"