diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/spark/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/spark/default.nix
index 99b7566fc713..2b36d7c5647a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/spark/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/spark/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchzip, makeWrapper, jre, pythonPackages
+{ stdenv, fetchzip, makeWrapper, jre, pythonPackages, coreutils
 , RSupport? true, R
 , mesosSupport ? true, mesos
 , version
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
     for n in $(find $out/lib/${untarDir}/bin -type f ! -name "*.*"); do
       makeWrapper "$n" "$out/bin/$(basename $n)"
+      substituteInPlace "$n" --replace dirname ${coreutils.out}/bin/dirname
     done
     ln -s $out/lib/${untarDir}/lib/spark-assembly-*.jar $out/share/java
   '';