On Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:47:30 UTC+1, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote: > > On Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:20:46 UTC+1, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > >> Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote: > >>> On Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:13:51 UTC+1, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > >>>> [email protected] wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Use rust 1.36. rust 1.37 might also work. > >>>> > >>>> FRG > >>> > >>> Thank you FRG! > >>> > >>> For anyone with the same issue: > >>> I ended up installing "rustup" > >>> Within rustup, I installed and set rustc 1.36.0 as default > >>> Then I built the package and after quite some time (single thread as I > >>> needed to see where it would potentially fail), I now have a working > >>> seamonkey-2.53.1 on Arch. > >>> > >> > >> We are trying to get latest rust support into 2.53.2 at least for Linux. > >> Unfortunately rust is more or less alpha/early beta quality wrt features > >> and > >> deprecation and a constantly moving target. > >> > >> FRG > > > > Rust is a pain to have as a dependancy regardless; Every distro has ist own > > versions, and rustup is by no means a standard that works with every (any?) > > packaging tool. Arch is fairly flexible here, but for instance Debian is a > > real issue: I can not create a complete, from source rebuildable package > > according to the Debian package guidelines with this thing in there... > > > > By the way: thank you for telling me I needed rust 1.36.0, but how would I > > have been able to find out myself? > > > > Hendrik-Jan > > > > In the ideal world we would have detailed build instructions available at the > website. We are trying to fix it and make the website usable again for devs. > Unfortunately with Linux every distribution is different. If you run into a > build error best to ask on irc. If no one answers check the logs later. At > least I look at them daily if something came up. The others too I think. > > FRG
That sounds good. I was unsure how to contact anyone about this. I stumbled upon this group, and gave it a shot. Thank you FRG! Hendrik-Jan _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
