Re: [dev-servo] How to disable Rust download and force use of pre-installed Rust?

2016-05-12 Thread Michael Howell
Rust 1.8 isn't going to work. Servo uses unstable features of Rust, which means it needs a Rust nightly. Sorry about that. On Wed, May 11, 2016, 07:02 wrote: > Hi! > > I am working on building Servo on Power8 LE machine. The Servo build > script checks and downloads Rust compiler and uses it fo

Re: [dev-servo] How to disable Rust download and force use of pre-installed Rust?

2016-05-12 Thread sowani
Thanks all for the response! Since I had a pre-compiled version of Rust, I found an easier way to use it. I copied my Rust directory under servo/.servo/rust/2016-05-07 and make a soft link with name "rustc-nightly-unknown-unknown-linux-gnu" pointing to my Rust directory. After this almost immed

Re: [dev-servo] How to disable Rust download and force use of pre-installed Rust?

2016-05-11 Thread Simon Sapin
On 11/05/16 21:29, Michal Suchanek wrote: Hello, On 11 May 2016 at 16:21, Jack Moffitt wrote: Note that you will not be able to build with 1.8.0 since we depend on many features available only in nightly. You can see which nightly we download by looking at the date in https://github.com/servo

Re: [dev-servo] How to disable Rust download and force use of pre-installed Rust?

2016-05-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 11 May 2016 at 16:21, Jack Moffitt wrote: > Note that you will not be able to build with 1.8.0 since we depend on > many features available only in nightly. You can see which nightly we > download by looking at the date in > https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/rust-nightly-date

Re: [dev-servo] How to disable Rust download and force use of pre-installed Rust?

2016-05-11 Thread Jack Moffitt
> Second, I was looking for a way to completely bypass Rust download at build > time. I do have Rust 1.8.0 version which works on Power8/LE and I want to use > the pre-installed Rust version instead of downloaded one. You can control this behavior by customizing the servobuild file. See https://

[dev-servo] How to disable Rust download and force use of pre-installed Rust?

2016-05-11 Thread sowani
Hi! I am working on building Servo on Power8 LE machine. The Servo build script checks and downloads Rust compiler and uses it for building Servo. I have a couple of difficulties here. First, the link which is used to by the build script to download Rust compiler is not working. I verified thi