NixOS/patchelf

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A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables

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We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to NixOS/patchelf to say how often they are merged. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars: 4.3k
Forks: 548
Open beginner issues: 2
Indexed issues: 118
Avg merge: 2d 20h
Merged PRs (30d): 4

Dominant language: C
License: GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Oct 20, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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Setting interpreter before rpath results in broken binary
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

NixOS/patchelf#674 · 6 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Oct 19, 2026
BE(?) broken since 0.15.0
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

NixOS/patchelf#663 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
How to add some functions from my so library to the imports of a third party executable ?
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

NixOS/patchelf#629 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 7, 2025
issue with null sections
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

NixOS/patchelf#619 · Opened Aug 18, 2025
Rewrite build system to use Meson
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#599 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 13, 2025
library still 'not found' after amending rpath
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#598 · Opened Jun 6, 2025
`rename-dynamic-symbols.sh` *seems* to be failing on mips64el
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#594 · Opened Apr 19, 2025
Weird import error with repaired wheel
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#592 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 20, 2025
Alpine linux fails with [Makefile:381: patchelf.o] Segmentation fault (core dumped) docker multiplatform: installing on linux/arm64
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#588 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 13, 2025
patchelf for elf i686 binary seems to be broken
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

NixOS/patchelf#585 · Opened Jan 23, 2025
2 tests fail on FreeBSD
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#584 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2025
segfault following assert fail at patchelf.cc:556
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

NixOS/patchelf#583 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 17, 2025
Call to --add-needed fails on .dbg files
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/patchelf#580 · Opened Dec 5, 2024
Android .note.gnu.property: unexpected note type. Expected 5, got 0.
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/patchelf#579 · Opened Dec 2, 2024
Android/Termux: make check failing
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#578 · Opened Nov 28, 2024
dlopen failed: cannot find "alizedOrThrow" from verneed[0] in DT_NEEDED list for "/base.apk!/lib/arm64-v8a/libxxxxtensorflowlite.so"
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#576 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 26, 2024
When the size of the executable file is greater than UINT32_MAX, the section rewriting will fail.
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/patchelf#571 · Opened Nov 17, 2024
Dynamically linked uClibc MIPS binaries are not recognized, missing section headers?
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

NixOS/patchelf#569 · Opened Nov 3, 2024
Patchelf set-rpath fails on Fedora 41 beta
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NixOS/patchelf#568 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 23, 2024
FAIL: shared-rpath.sh
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#563 · Opened Jul 30, 2024
build-id.sh fails when `LANG` ≠ `C`
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/patchelf#561 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2024
adding an RPATH makes it impossible to extract the GNU Build ID from a core dump
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#560 · Opened Jul 9, 2024
Test shared-rpath fails when building with lld
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/patchelf#559 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 10, 2024
Segfault with auditwheel and patchelf
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/patchelf#558 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 7, 2024
Version of gcc compiler effects correctness of patchelf 0.18
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

NixOS/patchelf#557 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 5, 2024
Add a way to change visibility of symbols
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#556 · Opened May 29, 2024
Patching hard-coded paths within the text segment.
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/patchelf#555 · Opened May 22, 2024
[RISCV] Error on 'make check' - relocation truncated to fit: R_RISCV_RVC_LUI against `__TMC_LIST__'
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#553 · 1 reaction · Opened May 15, 2024
`replace-needed.sh` test fails on 32-bit arm
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/patchelf#551 · Opened Mar 28, 2024
Need help for cross-compliling libc.so.6
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

NixOS/patchelf#545 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 14, 2024
rename-dynamic-symbols produces unusable binary
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/patchelf#540 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 15, 2023
build failed for NetBSD
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/patchelf#539 · Opened Dec 7, 2023
Patchelf 0.18.0 Build failure on s390x with "span : out of range error"
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

NixOS/patchelf#537 · Opened Nov 30, 2023
Relocatable binaries not handled
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#536 · Opened Nov 26, 2023
SEGV when ELF has a malformed .dynamic section
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/patchelf#535 · Opened Nov 23, 2023
Regression in 0.18.0: --set-rpath creates broken header alignment
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NixOS/patchelf#528 · 8 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Nov 2, 2023
Allow --rename-dynamic-symbols to change the version tag.
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

NixOS/patchelf#527 · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 30, 2023
What versions support redhat6
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/patchelf#523 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 13, 2023
repeated-updates.sh fails on mips64el
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#522 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 26, 2023
patchelf breaks dylibs from recent Firefox Nightly builds
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#520 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 20, 2023
Test regression in 0.18.0: repeated-updates.sh, replace-add-needed.sh
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

NixOS/patchelf#515 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2023
patchelf: cannot find section '.interp'. The input file is most likely statically linked
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/patchelf#509 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 25, 2023
Using patchelf and llvm-strip in sequence corrupts ELF files
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

NixOS/patchelf#507 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 14, 2023
error building version 0.18.0 on Amazon Linux 2
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NixOS/patchelf#506 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2023
patchelf seems to be leaving certain files corrupt
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#505 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 4, 2023
rename-dynamic-symbols.sh fails during the compilation with "span access out of range" error
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#503 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2023
[question] How to patch the path of section headers?
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/patchelf#500 · Opened Jun 5, 2023
Support idempotent addition of RPATHs and NEEDEDs (i.e. remove duplicates)
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NixOS/patchelf#497 · Opened May 15, 2023
patchelf: cannot find section '.dynamic'. The input file is most likely statically linked
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#465 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2023
Invalid header generated when modifying rpath with v1.6.1
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NixOS/patchelf#426 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 4, 2022

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