[Nix-dev] Bootstrap tools aren't statically linked.

[Jeevakan Suresh]

Hey guys.

I can no longer bootstrap trunk packages and the 0.13 pre-release nix on
my ancient RHEL machines :(. Even if I bring in the updates from
stdenv-updates branch it still all fails.

The culprit is
bootstrap-tools.cpio.bz2(http://nixos.org/tarballs/stdenv-linux/i686/r13
932/bootstrap-tools.cpio.bz2). Specifically, ld is dynamically linked
against /nix/store-e.*/glibc-2.9/lib/libc.so.6 - therefore when
installing glibc during bootstrap, you need LD_LIBRARY_PATH set for ld
to work.

Globally setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH (as is done in trunk) breaks /bin/sh
(since it tries to link against a different version of libc), not
setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH causes ld to fail (since it can't find libc)

Short of using the native stdenv - any ideas on how I can bootstrap?

Cheers
Jeeva.

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