diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/yosys/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/yosys/default.nix
index 51f0b7ed45aa..a83100911d13 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/yosys/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/yosys/default.nix
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , flex
 , libffi
-, pkgconfig
+, pkg-config
 , protobuf
 , python3
 , readline
 , tcl
 , verilog
 , zlib
+, plugins ? []
 }:
 
 # NOTE: as of late 2020, yosys has switched to an automation robot that
@@ -32,6 +33,8 @@
 # ultimately less confusing than using dates.
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  inherit plugins;
+
   pname   = "yosys";
   version = "0.9+3830";
 
@@ -43,21 +46,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-  buildInputs = [ tcl readline libffi python3 bison flex protobuf zlib ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config protobuf flex bison python3 ];
+  buildInputs = [ tcl readline libffi python3 protobuf zlib ];
 
   makeFlags = [ "ENABLE_PROTOBUF=1" "PREFIX=${placeholder "out"}"];
 
   patchPhase = ''
     substituteInPlace ./Makefile \
-      --replace 'CXX = clang' "" \
-      --replace 'LD = clang++' 'LD = $(CXX)' \
-      --replace 'CXX = gcc' "" \
-      --replace 'LD = gcc' 'LD = $(CXX)' \
-      --replace 'ABCMKARGS = CC="$(CXX)" CXX="$(CXX)"' 'ABCMKARGS =' \
       --replace 'echo UNKNOWN' 'echo ${builtins.substring 0 10 src.rev}'
-    substituteInPlace ./misc/yosys-config.in \
-      --replace '/bin/bash' '${bash}/bin/bash'
+    chmod +x ./misc/yosys-config.in
+    patchShebangs ./misc/yosys-config.in
     patchShebangs tests
   '';
 
@@ -76,8 +74,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       exit 1
     fi
 
-    if ! grep -q "YOSYS_VER := ${version}" Makefile; then
-      echo "ERROR: yosys version in Makefile isn't equivalent to version of the nix package (${version}), failing."
+    if ! grep -q "YOSYS_VER := $version" Makefile; then
+      echo "ERROR: yosys version in Makefile isn't equivalent to version of the nix package ($version), failing."
       exit 1
     fi
   '';
@@ -94,7 +92,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # add a symlink to fake things so that both variants work the same way. this
   # is also needed at build time for the test suite.
   postBuild   = "ln -sfv ${abc-verifier}/bin/abc ./yosys-abc";
-  postInstall = "ln -sfv ${abc-verifier}/bin/abc $out/bin/yosys-abc";
+  postInstall = ''
+    ln -sfv ${abc-verifier}/bin/abc $out/bin/yosys-abc
+
+    mkdir -p $out/share/yosys/plugins
+    for plugin in $plugins; do
+        ln -sfv $plugin/share/yosys/plugins/* $out/share/yosys/plugins/
+    done
+  '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Open RTL synthesis framework and tools";