How does this work without getting into a dependency loop at build time? martin
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Brian Anderson <bander...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 11/03/2013 11:10 PM, Martin DeMello wrote: >> >> I've been looking at https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/6085 which >> seems like it should be fairly simple to fix, however, the proposed >> solution involves EnumSet from libextra. >> >> Is it possible to use stuff from libextra within libstd? It seems to >> me that it would set up a circular dependency, though that could just >> be my misunderstanding the rust compilation model. If it is possible, >> how would I do it? If not, what would be the proper fix for issue >> #6085? >> > > As others mentioned it's not generally possible, but just for curiosity's > sake I'll point out that when running tests std *does* link to and use > features from libextra. It's mind-bending and bad. > > When we decide that std absolutely can't live without features from extra, > then those features get promoted to std. The bar is pretty high though. > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
