diff --git a/package/gobject-introspection/g-ir-compiler.in b/package/gobject-introspection/g-ir-compiler.in
index 3313cc501f..712753023a 100644
--- a/package/gobject-introspection/g-ir-compiler.in
+++ b/package/gobject-introspection/g-ir-compiler.in
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
 
-$(dirname $0)/g-ir-scanner-qemuwrapper $(dirname $0)/g-ir-compiler.real "$@"
+"$(dirname "$0")"/g-ir-scanner-qemuwrapper "$(dirname "$0")"/g-ir-compiler.real "$@"