diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libnvme/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libnvme/package.nix
index 8fa316908454..3c898afb8a8d 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libnvme/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/li/libnvme/package.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   swig,
   systemd,
   # ImportError: cannot import name 'mlog' from 'mesonbuild'
-  withDocs ? stdenv.hostPlatform.canExecute stdenv.buildPlatform,
+  withDocs ? stdenv.buildPlatform.canExecute stdenv.hostPlatform,
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/re/repgrep/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/re/repgrep/package.nix
index fb8d6012b24b..fdb2a6e02902 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/re/repgrep/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/re/repgrep/package.nix
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
       installManPage rgr.1
       popd
     ''
-    + lib.optionalString (stdenv.hostPlatform.canExecute stdenv.buildPlatform) ''
+    + lib.optionalString (stdenv.buildPlatform.canExecute stdenv.hostPlatform) ''
       # As it can be seen here: https://github.com/acheronfail/repgrep/blob/0.15.0/.github/workflows/release.yml#L206, the completions are just the same as ripgrep
       installShellCompletion --cmd rgr \
         --bash <(${lib.getExe ripgrep} --generate complete-bash | sed 's/-c rg/-c rgr/') \
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/vl/vlc/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/vl/vlc/package.nix
index 965415665364..ee03c8bfc4d9 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/vl/vlc/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/vl/vlc/package.nix
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
           ${freefont_ttf}/share/fonts/truetype
     ''
     # Upstream luac can't cross compile, so we have to install the lua sources
-    # instead of bytecode:
+    # instead of bytecode, which was built for buildPlatform:
     # https://www.lua.org/wshop13/Jericke.pdf#page=39
     + lib.optionalString (!stdenv.hostPlatform.canExecute stdenv.buildPlatform) ''
       substituteInPlace share/Makefile.am \
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/generic.nix b/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/generic.nix
index 8b4e592b1f52..7f69714dbd8c 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/generic.nix
@@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ let
         # resulting LLVM IR isn't platform-independent this doesn't give you much.
         # In fact, I tried to test the result in a VM-test, but as soon as JIT was used to optimize
         # a query, postgres would coredump with `Illegal instruction`.
+        #
+        # Note: This is "host canExecute build" on purpose, since this is about the LLVM that is called
+        # to do JIT at **runtime**.
         broken = jitSupport && !stdenv.hostPlatform.canExecute stdenv.buildPlatform;
       };
     });