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-rw-r--r--pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/make-symlinks-relative.sh28
-rw-r--r--pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix1
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/make-symlinks-relative.sh b/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/make-symlinks-relative.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0608d3ca81c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/make-symlinks-relative.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+fixupOutputHooks+=(_makeSymlinksRelative)
+
+# For every symlink in $output that refers to another file in $output
+# ensure that the symlink is relative. This removes references to the output
+# has from the resulting store paths and thus the NAR files.
+_makeSymlinksRelative() {
+ local symlinkTarget
+
+ if [ -n "${dontRewriteSymlinks-}" ]; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' f; do
+ symlinkTarget=$(readlink "$f")
+ if [[ "$symlinkTarget"/ != "$prefix"/* ]]; then
+ # skip this symlink as it doesn't point to $prefix
+ continue
+ fi
+
+ if [ ! -e "$symlinkTarget" ]; then
+ echo "the symlink $f is broken, it points to $symlinkTarget (which is missing)"
+ fi
+
+ echo "rewriting symlink $f to be relative to $prefix"
+ ln -snrf "$symlinkTarget" "$f"
+
+ done < <(find $prefix -type l -print0)
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix
index befeb4509973..df2d35d541b8 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ let lib = import ../../../lib; in lib.makeOverridable (
let
defaultNativeBuildInputs = extraNativeBuildInputs ++
[ ../../build-support/setup-hooks/move-docs.sh
+ ../../build-support/setup-hooks/make-symlinks-relative.sh
../../build-support/setup-hooks/compress-man-pages.sh
../../build-support/setup-hooks/strip.sh
../../build-support/setup-hooks/patch-shebangs.sh