diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/bazel/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/bazel/default.nix
index 352b79f21b6f..c0ff09d09767 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/bazel/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/bazel/default.nix
@@ -208,7 +208,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
             # about why to create a subdir for the workspace.
             cp -r ${workspaceDir} wd && chmod u+w wd && cd wd
 
-            BAZEL_EXTRACTED=${be.install_dir}
             ${bazelScript}
 
             touch $out
@@ -224,7 +223,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       };
 
     in {
-      shebang = callPackage ./shebang-test.nix { inherit runLocal bazelTest distDir; };
+      shebang = callPackage ./shebang-test.nix { inherit runLocal extracted bazelTest distDir; };
       bashTools = callPackage ./bash-tools-test.nix { inherit runLocal bazelTest distDir; };
       cpp = callPackage ./cpp-test.nix { inherit runLocal bazelTest bazel-examples distDir; };
       java = callPackage ./java-test.nix { inherit runLocal bazelTest bazel-examples distDir; };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/bazel/shebang-test.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/bazel/shebang-test.nix
index 98ec9a67c156..8610b036f2cc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/bazel/shebang-test.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/bazel/shebang-test.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   bazel
 , bazelTest
 , distDir
+, extracted
 , runLocal
 , unzip
 }:
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ let
         { grep -Re '#!/usr/bin' $dir && FAIL=1; } || true
         { grep -Re '#![^[:space:]]*/bin/env python' $dir && FAIL=1; } || true
       }
+      BAZEL_EXTRACTED=${extracted bazel}/install
       check_shebangs $BAZEL_EXTRACTED
       while IFS= read -r -d "" zip; do
         unzipped="./$zip/UNPACKED"