[Nix-dev] deploying nix-built software to non-nix linux systems

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 04/11/14 10:37, Michael Raskin wrote:

>> No, this is not possible unless you do static linking or some deep
>> ld-linux/patchelf magic. For instance, my-app will have references to Glibc in
>> the Nix store, which are not relocatable.
> 
> Technically, one could install a second Nix instance with 
> /home/target-user/nix instead of /nix as Nix root.

This is not a solution because the resulting binaries are still not relocatable.

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