diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix b/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix
index 78e671e8d229..7e73f98db782 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix
@@ -20,13 +20,18 @@ rec {
     }:
     runCommand name
       { inherit text executable;
+        passAsFile = [ "text" ];
         # Pointless to do this on a remote machine.
         preferLocalBuild = true;
       }
       ''
         n=$out${destination}
         mkdir -p "$(dirname "$n")"
-        echo -n "$text" > "$n"
+        if [ -e "$textPath" ]; then
+          mv "$textPath" "$n"
+        else
+          echo -n "$text" > "$n"
+        fi
         (test -n "$executable" && chmod +x "$n") || true
       '';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/nix-locale-archive.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/nix-locale-archive.patch
index 88c8adef9226..eeaf21901a39 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/nix-locale-archive.patch
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/nix-locale-archive.patch
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ diff -ru glibc-2.16.0-orig/locale/loadarchive.c glibc-2.16.0/locale/loadarchive.
  
  
 +static int
-+open_locale_archive ()
++open_locale_archive (void)
 +{
 +  int fd = -1;
 +  char *path = getenv ("LOCALE_ARCHIVE_2_11");
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix
index 43fca875f58f..4409dfc4eca7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix
@@ -85,16 +85,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     libs="$(find $out/lib -name \*w.a | sed 's,.*lib\(.*\)w.a.*,\1,g')"
     for lib in $libs; do
       if [ -e "$out/lib/lib''${lib}w.so" ]; then
-        echo "INPUT(-l''${lib}w)" > $out/lib/lib$lib.so
+        ln -svf lib''${lib}w.so $out/lib/lib$lib.so
+        ln -svf lib''${lib}w.so.${abiVersion} $out/lib/lib$lib.so.${abiVersion}
       fi
       ln -svf lib''${lib}w.a $out/lib/lib$lib.a
       ln -svf ''${lib}w.pc $out/lib/pkgconfig/$lib.pc
     done
 
     # Create curses compatability
-    echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > $out/lib/libcursesw.so
-    echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > $out/lib/libcurses.so
-    ln -svf libncurses
+    ln -svf libncursesw.so $out/lib/libcursesw.so
+    ln -svf libncursesw.so $out/lib/libcurses.so
   '' else ''
     # Create a non-abi versioned config
     cfg=$(basename $out/bin/ncurses*-config)
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ln -svf . $out/include/ncurses
 
     # Create curses compatability
-    echo "INPUT(-lncurses)" > $out/lib/libcurses.so
+    ln -svf libncurses.so $out/lib/libcurses.so
   '';
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix
index 9017025477b3..35e0b6d927b2 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, libsigsegv, readline, readlineSupport ? false }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "gawk-4.1.2";
+  name = "gawk-4.1.3";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/gawk/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "10glh5amry76v8fzhp4phi4119zwjwzjg9ybzq971qjfhg2m72za";
+    sha256 = "09d6pmx6h3i2glafm0jd1v1iyrs03vcyv2rkz12jisii3vlmbkz3";
   };
 
   doCheck = !stdenv.isCygwin; # XXX: `test-dup2' segfaults on Cygwin 6.1