attr: only supported on Linux

attr makes direct syscalls, so I don't think it's going to work on any
other platforms any time soon outside of a Linux translation layer.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/attr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/attr/default.nix
index b81afc24ee9..b7c9287b68b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/attr/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/attr/default.nix
@@ -31,15 +31,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr/";
     description = "Library and tools for manipulating extended attributes";
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
     license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
-
-    # The build failure on Darwin will likely be solved after upgrading the
-    # macOS SDK in nixpkgs. Check the current SDK version in
-    # ../../../../os-specific/darwin/apple-sdk/default.nix to see if it has
-    # been updated to 10.13 or later. Once the requirements are met, building
-    # it should be straightforward as Homebrew was able to build it without
-    # patching.
-    broken = stdenv.isDarwin;
   };
 }