From 94e7337e52b23b3cc9e7a2f8d882f22a3da04c1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doron Behar <doron.behar@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:53:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] balena-cli: fix darwin builds

---
 pkgs/by-name/ba/balena-cli/package.nix | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ba/balena-cli/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ba/balena-cli/package.nix
index 666b8c5f5f81..a6753400d877 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ba/balena-cli/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ba/balena-cli/package.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   node-gyp,
   python3,
   udev,
-  cctools,
+  xcbuild,
 }:
 
 let
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ buildNpmPackage' rec {
     python3
   ]
   ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [
-    cctools
+    xcbuild
   ];
 
   buildInputs = lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux [
@@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ buildNpmPackage' rec {
   nativeInstallCheckInputs = [
     versionCheckHook
   ];
-  doInstallCheck = true;
+  # Disabled on Darwin due to:
+  #
+  # https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5748
+  #
+  # No matter whether $TMP and $HOME point to real writable directories, the
+  # Darwin sandbox tries to use /var/empty and fails.
+  doInstallCheck = !stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
   versionCheckProgram = "${placeholder "out"}/bin/balena";
 
   meta = {