diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/edbrowse/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/edbrowse/default.nix
index d969552ecde4..712ede2e316f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/edbrowse/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/edbrowse/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     substituteInPlace src/ebjs.c --replace \"edbrowse-js\" \"$out/bin/edbrowse-js\"
   '';
 
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-I${spidermonkey_24}/include/mozjs-24";
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-I${spidermonkey_24.dev}/include/mozjs-24";
   makeFlags = "-C src prefix=$(out)";
 
   src = fetchurl {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix
index 9cbfde596c45..8ef3d953bfa4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1fig2wf4f10v43mqx67y68z6h77sy900d1w0pz9qarrqx57rc7ij";
   };
 
+  outputs = [ "dev" "out" "lib" ];
+
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ nspr ];
 
   buildInputs = [ pkgconfig perl python zip libffi readline ];
@@ -25,7 +27,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     export LIBXUL_DIST=$out
   '';
 
+  setOutputFlags = false;
   configureFlags = [
+    "--libdir=$(lib)/lib"
+    "--includedir=$(dev)/include"
     "--enable-threadsafe"
     "--with-system-nspr"
     "--with-system-ffi"
@@ -49,7 +54,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     paxmark mr jsapi-tests/jsapi-tests
   '';
 
-  postInstall = ''rm "$out"/lib/*.a''; # halve the output size
+  postInstall = ''
+    rm "$lib"/lib/*.a # halve the output size
+    _moveToOutput "bin/js*-config" "$dev" # break the cycle
+  '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Mozilla's JavaScript engine written in C/C++";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/24.2.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/24.2.nix
index 2c59b2c435a9..d235ab04526b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/24.2.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/24.2.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1n1phk8r3l8icqrrap4czplnylawa0ddc2cc4cgdz46x3lrkybz6";
   };
 
+  outputs = [ "dev" "out" "lib" ];
+
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ nspr ];
 
   buildInputs = [ pkgconfig perl python zip libffi readline ];
@@ -25,7 +27,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     export LIBXUL_DIST=$out
   '';
 
+  setOutputFlags = false;
   configureFlags = [
+    "--libdir=$(lib)/lib"
+    "--includedir=$(dev)/include"
     "--enable-threadsafe"
     "--with-system-nspr"
     "--with-system-ffi"
@@ -40,6 +45,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   doCheck = true;
   preCheck = "rm jit-test/tests/sunspider/check-date-format-tofte.js"; # https://bugzil.la/600522
 
+  postInstall = ''
+    rm "$lib"/lib/*.a # halve the output size
+    _moveToOutput "bin/js*-config" "$dev" # break the cycle
+  '';
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Mozilla's JavaScript engine written in C/C++";
     homepage = https://developer.mozilla.org/en/SpiderMonkey;
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/plowshare/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/plowshare/default.nix
index 418a9a1b9a33..a1a12a82471d 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/plowshare/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/plowshare/default.nix
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     make PREFIX="$out" install
 
     for fn in plow{del,down,list,up}; do
-      wrapProgram "$out/bin/$fn" --prefix PATH : "${curl.bin}/bin:${spidermonkey.bin}/bin"
+      wrapProgram "$out/bin/$fn" --prefix PATH : "${curl.bin}/bin:${spidermonkey.out}/bin"
     done
   '';