diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/nix/default.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/nix/default.nix
index c7dd659195b..476e0eae397 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/nix/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/nix/default.nix
@@ -7,17 +7,6 @@ import ../generic rec {
     ''
       export NIX_ENFORCE_PURITY=1
       export NIX_IGNORE_LD_THROUGH_GCC=1
-    '' + lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
-      export NIX_ENFORCE_PURITY=
-      export NIX_DONT_SET_RPATH=1
-      export NIX_NO_SELF_RPATH=1
-      dontFixLibtool=1
-      stripAllFlags=" " # the Darwin "strip" command doesn't know "-s"
-      xargsFlags=" "
-      export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
-      export SDKROOT=$(/usr/bin/xcrun --show-sdk-path 2> /dev/null || true)
-      export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE+=" --sysroot=/var/empty -idirafter $SDKROOT/usr/include -F$SDKROOT/System/Library/Frameworks -Wno-multichar -Wno-deprecated-declarations"
-      export NIX_LDFLAGS_AFTER+=" -L$SDKROOT/usr/lib"
     '';
 
   initialPath = (import ../common-path.nix) {pkgs = pkgs;};
@@ -29,11 +18,7 @@ import ../generic rec {
     nativePrefix = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isSunOS "/usr";
     nativeLibc = true;
     inherit stdenv;
-    binutils =
-      if stdenv.isDarwin then
-        import ../../build-support/native-darwin-cctools-wrapper {inherit stdenv;}
-      else
-        pkgs.binutils;
+    binutils = pkgs.binutils;
     gcc = pkgs.gcc.gcc;
     coreutils = pkgs.coreutils;
     shell = pkgs.bash + "/bin/sh";