diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
index e48c875d6f92..262fde749843 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   # This is needed because systemd uses the gold linker, which doesn't
   # yet have the wrapper script to add rpath flags automatically.
-  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-rpath ${pam}/lib -rpath ${libcap}/lib -rpath ${acl}/lib";
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-rpath ${pam}/lib -rpath ${libcap}/lib -rpath ${acl}/lib -rpath ${stdenv.gcc.gcc}/lib";
 
   PYTHON_BINARY = "${coreutils}/bin/env python"; # don't want a build time dependency on Python