The standard environment provides the following packages:
The GNU C Compiler, configured with C and C++ support.
GNU coreutils (contains a few dozen standard Unix commands).
GNU findutils (contains find).
GNU diffutils (contains diff, cmp).
GNU sed.
GNU grep.
GNU awk.
GNU tar.
gzip, bzip2 and xz.
GNU Make. It has been patched to provide “nested” output that can be fed into the nix-log2xml command and log2html stylesheet to create a structured, readable output of the build steps performed by Make.
Bash. This is the shell used for all builders in the Nix Packages collection. Not using /bin/sh removes a large source of portability problems.
The patch command.
On Linux, stdenv also includes the
patchelf utility.