Am Fri, May 01, 2026 at 09:21:18AM +0200 schrieb Hugo Buddelmeijer: > > ;;; The rust-bootstrap packages are special in that they are built with > > mrustc, > > ;;; which shortens the bootstrap path. > > The logical thing to do, at least to me, would be to have a rust-bootstrap-* > for every version of rust, so we don't have any long chain of > rust-building-rust at all. > > Just rust-bootstrap-1.xx and then rust-1.xx.
As I understood it, mrustc is catching up with an ever changing rust and cannot be used to compile the latest rust version; otherwise we would not need the rust-bootstrap-* at all. There were discussions in rust team about shortening the chain again. Andreas
