pure darwin stdenv

pkgs/development/libraries/gettext/default.nix

@@ -19,7 +19,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
             "--with-included-gettext"
             "--with-included-glib"
             "--with-included-libcroco"
-          ]);
+          ])
+     # avoid retaining reference to CF during stdenv bootstrap
+     ++ (stdenv.lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [
+        "gt_cv_func_CFPreferencesCopyAppValue=no"
+        "gt_cv_func_CFLocaleCopyCurrent=no"
+      ]);
 
   # On cross building, gettext supposes that the wchar.h from libc
   # does not fulfill gettext needs, so it tries to work with its

pkgs/development/libraries/icu/default.nix

@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   configureFlags = "--disable-debug" +
     stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin " --enable-rpath";
 
+  # remove dependency on bootstrap-tools in early stdenv build
+  postInstall = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
+    sed -i 's/INSTALL_CMD=.*install/INSTALL_CMD=install/' $out/lib/icu/${version}/pkgdata.inc
+  '';
+
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {

pkgs/development/libraries/libedit/default.nix

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ] else null;
 
   postInstall = ''
-    sed -i ${stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.isDarwin && stdenv.cc.nativeTools) "''"} s/-lncurses/-lncursesw/g $out/lib/pkgconfig/libedit.pc
+    sed -i s/-lncurses/-lncursesw/g $out/lib/pkgconfig/libedit.pc
   '';
 
   configureFlags = [ "--enable-widec" ];

pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix

@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
     sha256 = "039agw5rqvqny92cpkrfn243x2gd4xn13hs3xi6isk55d2vqqr9n";
   };
 
+  postPatch = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
+    substituteInPlace configure \
+      --replace '/usr/bin/libtool' 'ar' \
+      --replace 'AR="libtool"' 'AR="ar"' \
+      --replace 'ARFLAGS="-o"' 'ARFLAGS="-r"'
+  '';
+
   configureFlags = if static then "" else "--shared";
 
   preConfigure = ''