#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:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by ken@…):
To actually *use* rust, firefox also requires cargo which is if anything
even worse than rust for building from source (if cargo is not present,
need to manually download the previous version to bootstrap - not sure if
older installed version would work), and it ships without rust-installer
which prevents it from installing. Long notes, I don't want this to be
wasted if I get knocked over by a bus.
I've now got it building firefox-52.0.1, so I assume what I've got is
adequate (the phrase "good enough" doesn't really fit something which is
big, slow, and a new requirement). And I'm loathe to describe this as
"quick and dirty", it doesn't feel quick ;-)
With rust installed, download cargo-0.17.0 and then https://github.com
/rust-lang/cargo/archive/cargo-0.16.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz and
get rust-installer-master.zip from github.
Untar cargo, within that directory
{{{
tar -xvf ../cargo-0.16.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
unzip ../rust-installer-master.zip
mv -v rust-installer-master/* src/rust-installer
}}}
No, that doesn't move all the test/ files for the installer, and they
don't seem to be needed
Build with
{{{
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/ \
--cargo=./cargo-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/cargo/bin/cargo
make -jN
CFG_DISABLE_CROSS_TESTS=1 \
./target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/cargo test
make install
}}}
The tests all pass, I didn't count how many there were and lots of
individual summaries.
{{{
grep 'result.*failed' testlog | cut -d ';' -f2 | uniq
}}}
should produce one line of output, ' 0 failed'
Firefox-52.0.1 now built and DESTDIR installed, time and space similar to
a build without rust, but in the log I did see at least one reference to a
rust lib with its hashed version (plus, my initial attempt without cargo
failed quickly), so this process seems to be adequate.
Setting this aside until whichever version of firefox really does require
rustc.
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