diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/wh/whisper-cpp/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/wh/whisper-cpp/package.nix
index 25d1f4e3d5f5..d27925dcfc5b 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/wh/whisper-cpp/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/wh/whisper-cpp/package.nix
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ let
     optionals
     ;
 
+  inherit (effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform)
+    isStatic
+    isLinux
+    isAarch64
+    isx86
+    ;
+
   cudaBuildInputs = with cudaPackages; [
     cuda_cccl # <nv/target>
 
@@ -125,12 +132,12 @@ effectiveStdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     (cmakeBool "WHISPER_SDL2" withSDL)
     (cmakeBool "GGML_LTO" true)
     (cmakeBool "GGML_NATIVE" false)
-    (cmakeBool "BUILD_SHARED_LIBS" (!effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic))
+    (cmakeBool "BUILD_SHARED_LIBS" (!isStatic))
   ]
-  ++ optionals effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux [
+  ++ optionals isLinux [
     (cmakeBool "WHISPER_FFMPEG" withFFmpegSupport)
   ]
-  ++ optionals (effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isx86 && !effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic) [
+  ++ optionals (isx86 && !isStatic) [
     (cmakeBool "GGML_BACKEND_DL" true)
     (cmakeBool "GGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS" true)
     (cmakeFeature "GGML_BACKEND_DIR" "${placeholder "out"}/lib")
@@ -145,7 +152,7 @@ effectiveStdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     # Build all targets supported by rocBLAS. When updating search for TARGET_LIST_ROCM
     # in https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/rocBLAS/blob/develop/CMakeLists.txt
     # and select the line that matches the current nixpkgs version of rocBLAS.
-    "-DAMDGPU_TARGETS=${rocmGpuTargets}"
+    (cmakeFeature "AMDGPU_TARGETS" rocmGpuTargets)
   ]
   ++ optionals coreMLSupport [
     (cmakeBool "WHISPER_COREML" true)
@@ -170,7 +177,10 @@ effectiveStdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
   requiredSystemFeatures = optionals rocmSupport [ "big-parallel" ]; # rocmSupport multiplies build time by the number of GPU targets, which takes arround 30 minutes on a 16-cores system to build
 
-  doInstallCheck = true;
+  # libcuda.so is provided by the driver at runtime and is not available in the sandbox
+  # /nix/store/...-whisper-cpp-1.8.3/bin/whisper-cli: error while loading shared libraries: libcuda.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
+  # NOTE: it is unclear why this isn't an issue on x86_64-linux
+  doInstallCheck = !(isLinux && isAarch64 && cudaSupport);
 
   installCheckPhase = ''
     runHook preInstallCheck