diff --git a/pkgs/shells/bash/new.nix b/pkgs/shells/bash/new.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..beaf2f845e75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/shells/bash/new.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, bison, interactive ? false, ncurses ? null, texinfo ? null}:
+
+assert interactive -> ncurses != null;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "bash-3.2-p39";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://nixos.org/tarballs/bash-3.2-p39.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "075qs6nfjql57y8ffg3f4glb3l5yl3xy5hny75x6kpwxkqlcxqfy";
+  };
+
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = ''
+    -DSYS_BASHRC="/etc/bashrc"
+    -DSYS_BASH_LOGOUT="/etc/bash_logout"
+    -DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE="/no-such-path"
+    -DSTANDARD_UTILS_PATH="/no-such-path"
+    -DNON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS
+    -DSSH_SOURCE_BASHRC
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = "ln -s bash $out/bin/sh";
+
+  patches = [
+    # For dietlibc builds.
+    ./winsize.patch
+  ];
+
+  # !!! Bison is only needed for bash-3.2 (because of bash32-001.patch)
+  buildInputs = [bison]
+    ++ stdenv.lib.optional (texinfo != null) texinfo
+    ++ stdenv.lib.optional interactive ncurses;
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/;
+    description =
+      "GNU Bourne-Again Shell, the de facto standard shell on Linux" +
+        (if interactive then " (for interactive use)" else "");
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d7547e95b1bb..5b2a78528f15 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ let pkgs = rec {
       bison = bison23;
     }));
 
-  bashInteractive = appendToName "interactive" (import ../shells/bash {
+  bashInteractive = appendToName "interactive" (import ../shells/bash/new.nix {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv ncurses texinfo;
     bison = bison23;
     interactive = true;