On 2018-01-28, Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-01-27 at 18:17 +0000, Richard Bradfield wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Forgive me if this has been spotted elsewhere, it's not in this list
>> yet
>> as far as I can see.
>>
>> The excellent work to bring the version of Rust in ~amd64 up to date
>> has
>> had an unfortunate side effect, in that it now prevents Firefox from
>> building. Firefox appears to only supports Rust 1.19 and no later.
>>
>> I get a failure in one of the Rust components, as the build converts
>> warnings to errors, and an import is now unused in 1.23 as it's now
>> implicitly in scope, according to this thread [1]
>>
>> I know this is only a minor point release, but I was hoping to update
>> for the SPECTRE mitigations.
>>
>> Has anyone patched this themselves, or do I need to think about
>> rolling
>> the system rust back to 1.19?
>>
>> Emerge build log is attached, it's a bit noisy around the errors
>> sadly.
>>
>>
>> [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7rjvfu/this_is_why_you_sho
>> uld_not_treat_warnings_as/
>
> This is https://bugs.gentoo.org/645718
>
> Hopefully the problem just goes away with firefox 58, which is
> available in mozilla overlay and should get to main tree soon (last I
> heard some build tests were still running before introduction to main
> tree).
> Though if warnings are treated as errors still there too, then it'll
> hit again at some point, I guess, unless that bit is solved for good.
>
>
