From 1ac8d551a9e9e5bfa3b04c26b68311fd2435e6b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: K900 <me@0upti.me>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:57:32 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] steam: copy ldconfig instead of symlinking

Somehow this unconfuses srt-runtime-tools enough for it to actually work
consistently. Fixes #505824.
---
 pkgs/by-name/st/steam/package.nix | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/st/steam/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/st/steam/package.nix
index 910e4b5aadde..530a0db2fe39 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/st/steam/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/st/steam/package.nix
@@ -56,12 +56,6 @@ let
             xz
             zenity
 
-            # Steam expects it to be /sbin specifically
-            (pkgs.runCommand "sbin-ldconfig" { } ''
-              mkdir -p $out/sbin
-              ln -s /bin/ldconfig $out/sbin/ldconfig
-            '')
-
             # crashes on startup if it can't find libx11 locale files
             (pkgs.runCommand "xorg-locale" { } ''
               mkdir -p $out
@@ -133,6 +127,13 @@ let
 
         inherit extraPreBwrapCmds;
 
+        # Steam expects /sbin/ldconfig to exist, and since SinceRT3
+        # symlinking it results in a symlink loop in nested containers.
+        # Thus, just copy it.
+        extraBuildCommands = ''
+          cp -f $out/usr/{bin,sbin}/ldconfig
+        '';
+
         extraBwrapArgs = [
           # Steam will dump crash reports here, make those more accessible
           "--bind-try /tmp/dumps /tmp/dumps"