sdate builds and installs but will not run

[pmarreck]

I know it's not a particularly useful app but I unfortunately used it as an example to demo nix on macOS with (without trying it first) and of course it is the first binary I've ever installed with nix that didn't work...

bash> nix-shell -p sdate
this path will be fetched (0.00 MiB download, 0.06 MiB unpacked):
  /nix/store/bn53yi5rz17pzc0zvpjpf3aqcv3rc4dg-sdate-0.7
copying path '/nix/store/bn53yi5rz17pzc0zvpjpf3aqcv3rc4dg-sdate-0.7' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
bash> sdate
sdate: preload library not found in /nix/store/bn53yi5rz17pzc0zvpjpf3aqcv3rc4dg-sdate-0.7/lib:/nix/store/bn53yi5rz17pzc0zvpjpf3aqcv3rc4dg-sdate-0.7/lib64/libsdate, aborting.

EDIT: Tried it on NixOS and it installed and ran without fail.

[jeeftor]

First I install nix via determinate ... and I have nix-shell -p xxxx then when I install Darwin I only have: nix shell nixpkgs#xxxx

[joaothallis]

@pmarreck sdate is nixpkgs package. You should open the issue in this repo: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/tools/misc/sdate/default.nix#L18

[emilazy]

Not a nix-darwin bug, closing. Please do report an issue upstream to Nixpkgs, although I’m not sure to what degree macOS even supports the library preloading functionality that sdate depends on these days.