Texlive.combined.scheme-full fails to build on mac m1

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I’m trying to install tex on my mac. Installing texlive-combined-tetex works fine, but it seems to miss some stuff I depend on… so I tried the texlive.combined.scheme-full, but unfortunately this fails to build, with errors about it not finding libz ??

$ nix-shell -p texlive.combined.scheme-full

error: builder for ‘/nix/store/7kly0naphj9fvjhnjxlcl1sjmngaba9p-perl5.34.0-XML-LibXML-2.0206.drv’ failed with exit code 2;
last 10 log lines:
> 3 warnings generated.
> cc -c -I/nix/store/3r9qf0fsy61lbwrgy69qdg4fdqj4bc3n-libxml2-2.9.12-dev/include/libxml2 -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -mmacosx-version-min=11.0 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/no-such-path/include -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -Wno-error=implicit-fu
nction-declaration -O3 -DVERSION="2.0206" -DXS_VERSION="2.0206" “-I/nix/store/0lhwa4v7ii5523nj56xl22d9520kn2wv-perl-5.34.0/lib/perl5/5.34.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE” -DHAVE_UTF8 perl-libxml-sax.c
> cc -c -I/nix/store/3r9qf0fsy61lbwrgy69qdg4fdqj4bc3n-libxml2-2.9.12-dev/include/libxml2 -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -mmacosx-version-min=11.0 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/no-such-path/include -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -Wno-error=implicit-fu
nction-declaration -O3 -DVERSION="2.0206" -DXS_VERSION="2.0206" “-I/nix/store/0lhwa4v7ii5523nj56xl22d9520kn2wv-perl-5.34.0/lib/perl5/5.34.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE” -DHAVE_UTF8 xpath.c
> rm -f blib/arch/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.bundle
> LD_RUN_PATH=“/nix/store/a5snvhm8h1j8p1hmr0yn1p9qsj7q3ycm-libxml2-2.9.12/lib” cc -L/nix/store/a5snvhm8h1j8p1hmr0yn1p9qsj7q3ycm-libxml2-2.9.12/lib -mmacosx-version-min=11.0 -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/no-such-path/lib -fstack-protector-strong Av_CharP
trPtr.o Devel.o LibXML.o dom.o perl-libxml-mm.o perl-libxml-sax.o xpath.o -o blib/arch/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.bundle
> -L/nix/store/a5snvhm8h1j8p1hmr0yn1p9qsj7q3ycm-libxml2-2.9.12/lib -lxml2 -lz -lpthread -lm
>
> ld: library not found for -lz
> clang-11: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
> make: *** [Makefile:583: blib/arch/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.bundle] Error 1
For full logs, run ‘nix log /nix/store/7kly0naphj9fvjhnjxlcl1sjmngaba9p-perl5.34.0-XML-LibXML-2.0206.drv’.
error: 1 dependencies of derivation ‘/nix/store/i64r2xkyv2y44q7v4sm9ii7p1z3aw9qc-perl5.34.0-XML-LibXML-Simple-1.01.drv’ failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation ‘/nix/store/ng7ywzg40pxs0q8jkr0lwvgc4wsicw8p-perl5.34.0-biber-2.16.drv’ failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation ‘/nix/store/v6vixj3q8pdf7s2m6bjrn4d6n6zdlfdr-texlive-combined-full-2021.20211227.drv’ failed to build

Any idea what might be wrong?

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Same error with “nix-env -i texlive-combined-full-2021.20211227”.

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As you can see from the build log, this error has nothing to do with TeX Live, because it’s dependencies that failed to build, specifically perlPackages.XMLLibXSLT. This has already been reported on the issue tracker.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/162390

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As a workaround, I switched to nixpkgs-unstable, and there I can build the full texlive.combined.scheme-full:

nix-channel --add nixpkgs-unstable release nixpkgs-24.05pre583512.01737456dfe4
nix-channel --update
nix-shell -p texlive.combined.scheme-full