Building a statically linked nix for hpc environments

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Note that there is a single-file statically linked Nix distribution now. You can get it as follows:

# curl -L https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/buildStatic.x86_64-linux/latest/download-by-type/file/binary-dist > nix
# chmod +x ./nix

and use it with a non-standard Nix store as follows:

# NIX_REMOTE='local?store=/home/eelco/nix/store&state=/home/eelco/nix/var/nix&log=/home/eelco/nix/var/log/nix' /path/to/nix \
  --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' \
  build nixpkgs#hello
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