From fbe214434a678004f8631a8f893d5c089e534db9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivy Pierlot <ivyp@outlook.com.au>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:15:29 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] buildEnv: change pathsToLink to json decoding

---
 pkgs/build-support/buildenv/builder.pl  | 2 +-
 pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/builder.pl b/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/builder.pl
index f2fdf36f79e5..f66acf3d5e75 100755
--- a/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/builder.pl
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/builder.pl
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ $SIG{__DIE__}  = sub { die "pkgs.buildEnv error: ", @_ };
 my $out = $ENV{"out"};
 my $extraPrefix = $ENV{"extraPrefix"};
 
-my @pathsToLink = split ' ', $ENV{"pathsToLink"};
+my @pathsToLink = @{decode_json $ENV{"pathsToLinkJSON"}};
 
 sub isInPathsToLink($path) {
     $path = "/" if $path eq "";
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix
index dbeb2a629f20..5996239a16b4 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ lib.makeOverridable (
           nativeBuildInputs
           buildInputs
           ;
+        pathsToLinkJSON = builtins.toJSON pathsToLink;
         pkgs = builtins.toJSON chosenOutputs;
         extraPathsFrom = lib.optional includeClosures (writeClosure pathsForClosure);
         preferLocalBuild = true;