On 3/19/16 5:27 AM, cosinusoida...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 12:23:32 UTC, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Martin Stransky <stran...@redhat.com> wrote:
Is it possible to build Rust from sources before Firefox build executes?
rustc is written in Rust, so if you only have source code and the
compilers that are currently available in Fedora, you can't build
rustc. At minimum, you need a "stage0" compiler, which is an archived
older rustc binary. (rustc originally bootstrapped with OCaml, but
building the whole history of Rust from the OCaml days to present
every time Fedora builds Firefox seems excessively impractical.)
Out of interest, would that actually involve building every single Linux
snapshot from https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/snapshots.txt
in sequence? All 319 of them?
And are those the steps you'd actually have to take to bring Rust up
from scratch on a new platform?
Cameron Kaiser
tier-3s in rain dept.
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