#8951: rustc will apparently be needed for firefox-53.
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Reporter: ken@… | Owner: ken@…
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.1
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by ken@…):
The more I look at rust, the more its build systems offend me: no doubt it
provides the security its adherents claim, but for people who build from
source on each machine it is a heavy burden (e.g. with the shipped llvm it
builds for each possible architecture (AArch64, MIPS, PowerPC, SystemZ)
and the only option is to not *install* the non-host architectures. I have
now found, at [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/Firefox/Building_Firefox_with_Rust_code] that there may be a small
delay:
{{{
Disabling Rust code
Support for building without Rust code was removed in bug 1284816. For
Firefox 54 it's possible to build without Rust by patching out that and
subsequent changes, but starting with Firefox 55 this becomes increasingly
difficult and affects user security and available features.
}}}
That implies that ff-53 (not ff-52) will be the last non-rust version. But
even for ff-54, patching out that commit plus all subsequent commits
sounds a large activity, and obviously some of those subsequent commits
will be security related. So, perhaps 6 weeks more than initially
threatened.
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