diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/sublime3/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/sublime3/default.nix
index 8912aca0711d..0b8ecda62302 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/sublime3/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/sublime3/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { fetchurl, stdenv, glib, xorg, cairo, gtk2, pango, makeWrapper, openssl, bzip2,
   pkexecPath ? "/run/wrappers/bin/pkexec", libredirect,
-  gksuSupport ? false, gksu}:
+  gksuSupport ? false, gksu, unzip, zip, bash }:
 
 assert stdenv.system == "i686-linux" || stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux";
 assert gksuSupport -> gksu != null;
@@ -33,6 +33,21 @@ in let
     dontPatchELF = true;
     buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
 
+    # make exec.py in Default.sublime-package use own bash with
+    # an LD_PRELOAD instead of "/bin/bash"
+    patchPhase = ''
+      mkdir Default.sublime-package-fix
+      ( cd Default.sublime-package-fix
+        ${unzip}/bin/unzip ../Packages/Default.sublime-package > /dev/null
+        substituteInPlace "exec.py" --replace \
+          "[\"/bin/bash\"" \
+          "[\"$out/sublime_bash\""
+      )
+      ${zip}/bin/zip -j Default.sublime-package.zip Default.sublime-package-fix/* > /dev/null
+      mv Default.sublime-package.zip Packages/Default.sublime-package
+      rm -r Default.sublime-package-fix
+    '';
+
     buildPhase = ''
       for i in sublime_text plugin_host crash_reporter; do
         patchelf \
@@ -52,6 +67,12 @@ in let
       mkdir -p $out
       cp -prvd * $out/
 
+      # We can't just call /usr/bin/env bash because a relocation error occurs
+      # when trying to run a build from within Sublime Text
+      ln -s ${bash}/bin/bash $out/sublime_bash
+      wrapProgram $out/sublime_bash \
+        --set LD_PRELOAD "${stdenv.cc.cc.lib}/lib${stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.is64bit "64"}/libgcc_s.so.1"
+
       wrapProgram $out/sublime_text \
         --set LD_PRELOAD "${libredirect}/lib/libredirect.so" \
         --set NIX_REDIRECTS ${builtins.concatStringsSep ":" redirects}