> No such file or directory Anyone who’s run into this problem remembers it! (This isn’t a Nix problem—this is just the baffling errors you get because a.out e

> No such file or directory Anyone who’s run into this problem remembers it! (This isn’t a Nix problem—this is just the baffling errors you get because a.out exists, but one of the libraries it needs does not, and the error message doesn’t distinguish that case.) Anyway, Nix. Nix has the Nix way of building things. Nix doesn’t give you standard tools. It gives you wrappers around the standard tools that force you to do things a certain way. Part of that is futzing around with RPATH—because Nix stores everything in an unusual location. The user experience around this is awful, if you ever run into a case where Nix’s tooling doesn’t automatically do the right thing for you. It’s not just RPATH, but also other paths. What’s the solution? Honestly—I think it would make sense for Nix to have a “cross compilation” mode where you tell it to cross-compile for other Linuxes. You know, something like pkgsCross.x86_64-generic-linux. This comes with all the cross-compilation headaches, but you know what? You are cross-compiling.