diff --git a/tools/lint/eslint/setup_helper.py b/tools/lint/eslint/setup_helper.py
index bd6d403573d7..03277a6b6d0e 100644
--- a/tools/lint/eslint/setup_helper.py
+++ b/tools/lint/eslint/setup_helper.py
@@ -141,15 +141,20 @@ def package_setup(
         if platform.system() != "Windows":
             cmd.insert(0, node_path)
 
+        cmd.extend(extra_parameters)
+
         # Ensure that bare `node` and `npm` in scripts, including post-install scripts, finds the
         # binary we're invoking with.  Without this, it's easy for compiled extensions to get
         # mismatched versions of the Node.js extension API.
-        extra_parameters.append("--scripts-prepend-node-path")
-
-        cmd.extend(extra_parameters)
+        path = os.environ.get("PATH", "").split(os.pathsep)
+        node_dir = os.path.dirname(node_path)
+        if node_dir not in path:
+            path = [node_dir] + path
 
         print('Installing %s for mach using "%s"...' % (package_name, " ".join(cmd)))
-        result = call_process(package_name, cmd)
+        result = call_process(
+            package_name, cmd, append_env={"PATH": os.pathsep.join(path)}
+        )
 
         if not result:
             return 1
@@ -166,8 +171,9 @@ def package_setup(
         os.chdir(orig_cwd)
 
 
-def call_process(name, cmd, cwd=None):
+def call_process(name, cmd, cwd=None, append_env={}):
     env = dict(os.environ)
+    env.update(append_env)
 
     try:
         with open(os.devnull, "w") as fnull: