On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 2:16 PM Richard Purdie
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 10:42 +0000, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> > Does anyone actually use target rust? I thought we had some test
> > coverage, but I'm failing to find it.
>
> A basic hello world on target:
>
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/rust.py
>
> but we could do with something more along the lines of:
>
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/gcc.py
>
> adding.
>
> We do also have:
>
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/rust.py
>
> which are basic tests for rust in the SDK.
>
> > After the thread on stable/beta/nightly, I started playing with it on
> > target and so far have:
> >
> > * we're missing the rustlib/<target>/target.json
> > * we don't have gcc/binutils in RDEPENDS so there's no linker
> > * no libc-dev/libgcc-dev
> >
> > I'm not sure how target dev tools ever get used/installed as it's not
> > something I've ever touched, so maybe the last one/two are expected?
> > But the missing target.json just makes rustc bail on startup - looks
> > like 16b4ac3f558f ("rust: Enable nativesdk and target builds + replace
> > rust-tools-cross-canadian") might be where it got dropped, just
> > checking.
>
> On target rust never worked.

I don't know if it ever worked in meta-rust - a number of the
fixes/patches I came across from that time suggested it might have
done, but it was years ago.

> I made it build and tried to clean up a
> variety of things but I moved on to other things before getting to the
> target toolchain/runtime testing. Patches to move forward welcome,
> especially with tests. The work I did was to at least try and get
> things onto a proper footing for the future.
>

I'll have a look at some tests, since having figured out how to make
it work, I'd rather it didn't regress, even if I don't actually intend
to use it!

With the target.json patch I sent up, plus gcc binutils libc-dev
libgcc-dev added to an image `rustc` on target generates working
binaries.

-- 
Alex Kiernan
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