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-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libressl/default.nix6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libressl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libressl/default.nix
index 32b58c736fb..f30ead30b3b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libressl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libressl/default.nix
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ let
 
     # Ensure that the output libraries do not require an executable stack.
     # Without this, libcrypto would be built with the executable stack flag set.
-    # For Clang, the flag is '--noexecstack', for GCC it is '-z noexecstack'.
+    # For GCC the flag is '-z noexecstack'. Clang, which is used on Darwin,
+    # expects '--noexecstack'. Execstack is an ELF thing, so it is not needed
+    # on Darwin.
     NIX_LDFLAGS = if stdenv.isDarwin
-      then ["--noexecstack"]
+      then []
       else ["-z" "noexecstack"];
 
     enableParallelBuilding = true;