diff --git a/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/backend-stdenv.nix b/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/backend-stdenv.nix
index ff54af3c2fb92..3b4c8d47c5e8b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/backend-stdenv.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/backend-stdenv.nix
@@ -2,49 +2,29 @@
   lib,
   nvccCompatibilities,
   cudaVersion,
-  buildPackages,
+  pkgs,
   overrideCC,
   stdenv,
   wrapCCWith,
+  stdenvAdapters,
 }:
 
 let
   gccMajorVersion = nvccCompatibilities.${cudaVersion}.gccMaxMajorVersion;
-  # We use buildPackages (= pkgsBuildHost) because we look for a gcc that
-  # runs on our build platform, and that produces executables for the host
-  # platform (= platform on which we deploy and run the downstream packages).
-  # The target platform of buildPackages.gcc is our host platform, so its
-  # .lib output should be the libstdc++ we want to be writing in the runpaths
-  # Cf. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/225661#discussion_r1164564576
-  ccForLibs = stdenv.cc.cc;
-  cxxStdlib = lib.getLib ccForLibs;
-  nvccCompatibleCC = buildPackages."gcc${gccMajorVersion}".cc;
-
-  cc = wrapCCWith {
-    cc = nvccCompatibleCC;
-
-    # Note: normally the `useCcForLibs`/`gccForLibs` mechanism is used to get a
-    # clang based `cc` to use `libstdc++` (from gcc).
-
-    # Here we (ab)use it to use a `libstdc++` from a different `gcc` than our
-    # `cc`.
-
-    # Note that this does not inhibit our `cc`'s lib dir from being added to
-    # cflags/ldflags (see `cc_solib` in `cc-wrapper`) but this is okay: our
-    # `gccForLibs`'s paths should take precedence.
-    useCcForLibs = true;
-    gccForLibs = ccForLibs;
-  };
-  cudaStdenv = overrideCC stdenv cc;
+  cudaStdenv = stdenvAdapters.useLibsFrom stdenv pkgs."gcc${gccMajorVersion}Stdenv";
   passthruExtra = {
-    nixpkgsCompatibleLibstdcxx = lib.warn "cudaPackages.backendStdenv.nixpkgsCompatibleLibstdcxx is misnamed, deprecated, and will be removed after 24.05" cxxStdlib;
+    nixpkgsCompatibleLibstdcxx = lib.warn "cudaPackages.backendStdenv.nixpkgsCompatibleLibstdcxx is misnamed, deprecated, and will be removed after 24.05" cudaStdenv.cc.cxxStdlib.package;
     # cc already exposed
   };
   assertCondition = true;
 in
 
 # We should use libstdc++ at least as new as nixpkgs' stdenv's one.
-assert ((stdenv.cc.cxxStdlib.kind or null) == "libstdc++")
-  -> lib.versionAtLeast cxxStdlib.version stdenv.cc.cxxStdlib.package.version;
+assert let
+  cxxStdlibCuda = cudaStdenv.cc.cxxStdlib.package;
+  cxxStdlibNixpkgs = stdenv.cc.cxxStdlib.package;
+in
+((stdenv.cc.cxxStdlib.kind or null) == "libstdc++")
+-> lib.versionAtLeast cxxStdlibCuda.version cxxStdlibNixpkgs.version;
 
 lib.extendDerivation assertCondition passthruExtra cudaStdenv
diff --git a/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/cuda/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/cuda/overrides.nix
index d6068456e4dc8..b4b59ce1f4a6e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/cuda/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/cuda/overrides.nix
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ attrsets.filterAttrs (attr: _: (builtins.hasAttr attr prev)) {
   cuda_nvcc = prev.cuda_nvcc.overrideAttrs (
     oldAttrs:
     let
-      # This replicates the logic in backend-stdenv.nix, except the stdenv uses
-      # buildPackages and we use pkgsHostTarget.
+      # This replicates the logic in stdenvAdapters.useLibsFrom, except we use
+      # gcc from pkgsHostTarget and not from buildPackages.
       ccForLibs-wrapper = final.pkgs.stdenv.cc;
       gccMajorVersion = final.nvccCompatibilities.${cudaVersion}.gccMaxMajorVersion;
       cc = final.pkgs.wrapCCWith {