Dynamic Loader (ELF interpreter) not working under NixOS

[schlichtanders]

The documentation states that the BinaryBuilder.jl julia binaries are meant to be run on every linux where julia can be installed.

On NixOS there is julia installable (called julia-bin), but the binarybuild packages sometimes fail, because of dynamic linking and assumptions on the linux file system.

See the following issues for concrete failures and nixos-specific explanations of the error

• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/181960#issuecomment-1188468664
• https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/issues/4046#issuecomment-992382322

The linked nixos resources for explanation are:

• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/522822/different-methods-to-run-a-non-nixos-executable-on-nixos/522823#522823
• https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Packaging/Binaries

It would be great to have a full julia support on NixOS in the near future.

[giordano]

See https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/issues/5022 and https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/issues/4046

[schlichtanders]

Thank you so much for the additional link 5022, as it indeed referred to the discourse thread https://discourse.nixos.org/t/making-lib64-ld-linux-x86-64-so-2-available/19679/2 where two generic fixes for Julia on Nixos are listed

[schlichtanders]

To summarize: the only missing piece is the hardcoded dependency on /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 if this could be solved without using a hard-coded path, it would run under NixOS without the above mentioned fixes

[giordano]

All other distributions on this planet need that hardcode path.