diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
index 24680754c8d5d..fdc1457cc469b 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 , isGNU ? false, isClang ? cc.isClang or false, gnugrep ? null
 , buildPackages ? {}
 , libcxx ? null
-, grossHackForStagingNext ? false
 
 # Whether or not to add `-B` and `-L` to `nix-support/cc-{c,ld}flags`
 , useCcForLibs ?
@@ -412,7 +411,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     # already knows how to find its own libstdc++, and adding
     # additional -isystem flags will confuse gfortran (see
     # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209870#issuecomment-1500550903)
-    + optionalString (libcxx == null && (if grossHackForStagingNext then isClang else true) && (useGccForLibs && gccForLibs.langCC or false)) ''
+    + optionalString (libcxx == null && isClang && (useGccForLibs && gccForLibs.langCC or false)) ''
       for dir in ${gccForLibs}${lib.optionalString (hostPlatform != targetPlatform) "/${targetPlatform.config}"}/include/c++/*; do
         echo "-isystem $dir" >> $out/nix-support/libcxx-cxxflags
       done
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/12/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/12/default.nix
index bf1c6e2ffae84..ffe94eab3ce39 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/12/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/12/default.nix
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 , buildPackages
 , libxcrypt
 , disableGdbPlugin ? !enablePlugin
-, disableBootstrap ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin
 , nukeReferences
 , callPackage
 }:
@@ -57,6 +56,7 @@ with builtins;
 
 let majorVersion = "12";
     version = "${majorVersion}.2.0";
+    disableBootstrap = !stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
 
     inherit (stdenv) buildPlatform hostPlatform targetPlatform;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/common/configure-flags.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/common/configure-flags.nix
index eadc6967acfc9..e0f7ccc7b59a3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/common/configure-flags.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/common/configure-flags.nix
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ let
   inherit (stdenv)
     buildPlatform hostPlatform targetPlatform;
 
+  # See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209870#issuecomment-1500550903
+  disableBootstrap' = disableBootstrap && !langFortran;
+
   crossMingw = targetPlatform != hostPlatform && targetPlatform.libc == "msvcrt";
   crossDarwin = targetPlatform != hostPlatform && targetPlatform.libc == "libSystem";
 
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ let
     # TODO: aarch64-darwin has clang stdenv and its arch and cpu flag values are incompatible with gcc
     ++ lib.optionals (!(stdenv.isDarwin && stdenv.isAarch64)) (import ../common/platform-flags.nix { inherit (stdenv)  targetPlatform; inherit lib; })
     ++ lib.optionals (targetPlatform != hostPlatform) crossConfigureFlags
-    ++ lib.optional disableBootstrap "--disable-bootstrap"
+    ++ lib.optional disableBootstrap' "--disable-bootstrap"
 
     # Platform-specific flags
     ++ lib.optional (targetPlatform == hostPlatform && targetPlatform.isx86_32) "--with-arch=${stdenv.hostPlatform.parsed.cpu.name}"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/kaldi-active-grammar/fork.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/kaldi-active-grammar/fork.nix
index 7b5b30b5ec7ef..7748e34df6f2d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/kaldi-active-grammar/fork.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/kaldi-active-grammar/fork.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 , python3
 , openblas
 , zlib
-, gfortran-tmp-noisystem
+, gfortran
 }:
 
 let
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     pkg-config
     python3
-    gfortran-tmp-noisystem
+    gfortran
   ];
 
   buildFlags = [
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scikit-learn/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scikit-learn/default.nix
index 4a365b86dadb0..bd2a9be69b67f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scikit-learn/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scikit-learn/default.nix
@@ -55,9 +55,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     export SKLEARN_BUILD_PARALLEL=$NIX_BUILD_CORES
   '';
 
-  # TODO: a proper fix?  See around PR #225220
-  NIX_LDFLAGS = if stdenv.cc.isGNU then "-L${stdenv.cc.cc.lib}/lib" else null;
-
   doCheck = !stdenv.isAarch64;
 
   disabledTests = [
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3bec8181f2107..f0c79e15cf554 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -14855,15 +14855,6 @@ with pkgs;
     profiledCompiler = false;
   });
 
-  gfortran-tmp-noisystem = wrapCCWith { grossHackForStagingNext = true; cc = (gcc.cc.override {
-    name = "gfortran";
-    langFortran = true;
-    langCC = false;
-    langC = false;
-    profiledCompiler = false;
-    disableBootstrap = false;
-  }); };
-
   gfortran48 = wrapCC (gcc48.cc.override {
     name = "gfortran";
     langFortran = true;
@@ -15345,12 +15336,8 @@ with pkgs;
   julia_16-bin = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.6-bin.nix { };
   julia_18-bin = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.8-bin.nix { };
 
-  julia_18 = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.8.nix {
-    gfortran = gfortran-tmp-noisystem;
-  };
-  julia_19 = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.9.nix {
-    gfortran = gfortran-tmp-noisystem;
-  };
+  julia_18 = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.8.nix { };
+  julia_19 = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.9.nix { };
 
   julia-lts-bin = julia_16-bin;
   julia-stable-bin = julia_18-bin;