NixOS: patch binaries if the dynamic linker is a stub #4413
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On modern NixOS installations
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2seems to be a link to/nix/store/%hash%-stub-ld-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl, which prints the following when invoked:But the current check assumes that things are fine and does not patch anything.
This PR makes
kanistill patch binaries if/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2is a stub.By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contribution is made under the terms of the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses.