autoPatchelfHook: fix arguments parsing

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/auto-patchelf.py b/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/auto-patchelf.py
index 261f55854808e..4769179167b3b 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/auto-patchelf.py
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/auto-patchelf.py
@@ -336,9 +336,12 @@ def main() -> None:
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--extra-args",
-        nargs="*",
+        # Undocumented Python argparse feature: consume all remaining arguments
+        # as values for this one. This means this argument should always be passed
+        # last.
+        nargs="...",
         type=str,
-        help="Extra arguments to pass to patchelf"
+        help="Extra arguments to pass to patchelf. This argument should always come last."
     )
 
     print("automatically fixing dependencies for ELF files")