[Nix-dev] Disabling patchelf on ARM

[Joachim Schiele]

On 26.12.2015 12:55, Jookia wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I've been working for a few months on getting a Novena port of NixOS running.
> The overall Nix infrastructure works, though I still have a ton of issues to
> solve before publishing any patches required on a git repository (they probably
> won't be merged in to nixpkgs anyway.)

if they are good patches we will merge them!

> A problem I've been dealing with is mysterious segmentation faults affecting the
> system along with bugs that aren't present in Debian on the same system.
> patchelf has been the culprit for quite a few of them and upstream doesn't seem
> to be working on fixing this.

patchelf is used to deploy the initial bootstrap-tools. later one there
is only minimal use, as you already said, for binary only applications.

please provide an exaple, where patchelf is doing something wrong with
some paste from the shell.

thank you