On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 11:06:18 PM UTC, Petr Cerny wrote: > i.stakenvic...@gmail.com wrote: > > Technically speaking, as i've been told at least, rust can still be > > built from scratch if ocaml is available on the platform, starting > > with rust-0.6, to 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0 and then finally 1.7 or newer. > > If a distro really does ban cross-compiling to jump directly to > > rust-1.7 or newer then their developers can stoll go this route to > > package it. Theoretically it only needs to be done once, right? > > Question is, whether we'll be fine with some 7 iterations like you > suggest or we'd need the ~300 steps Henri mentioned.
I´d like to build rust for alpine linux, which uses musl libc. There is big interest among alpine users to get rust working for alpine. I´d say that 7 iteration is too much, because it is 7 x number of architectures. In alpine case it is currently 3 arch, x86, x86_64 and arm. It will likely be more. It would be *very* helpful to be able to bootstrap rust directly from C/python/perl/whatever. -nc _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
