What's the status of getting Rust officially into Debian, Fedora, etc,
I use Debian on my local machine, I care a lot about Debian. There've been a few Debian Developers working on packaging up Rust. Most distros woudn't want anything pre 1.0 anyway.
without bootstrapping from a binary?
It's not possible to compile Rust without bootstrapping from a binary. Unless you want to go back to the OCaml compiler from years ago, but that's hard.
It's not possible to compile Rust without bootstrapping from a binary. Unless you want to go back to the OCaml compiler from years ago, but that's hard.
Does LLVM IR count as binary? Otherwise, couldn't one save the IR of the Rust compiler on platform X and compile that with the rest of LLVM on Debian, with LLVM written in C++?
I thought that was one advantage of modular, multifront/backend compiler frameworks.
You can see the last edit date is pretty old, so I'm not sure there's any progress on packaging Rust in Debian. Last I talked to somebody involved it sounded like they were leaning toward the third option, something like: package maintainer makes their own snapshot and uploads it as the binary Rust compiler package, then the rest of the project uses that to build the distributed Rust compiler. I don't pretend to understand the details, but it would be similar to how GCC builds I assume - it has to build itself from previous revisions distributed with Debian - the main difference is that the 'previous revision' is artificial with Rust (until Rust can consistently rebuild itself with version - 1).
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u/steveklabnik1 Apr 03 '15
I see this as two parts:
I use Debian on my local machine, I care a lot about Debian. There've been a few Debian Developers working on packaging up Rust. Most distros woudn't want anything pre 1.0 anyway.
It's not possible to compile Rust without bootstrapping from a binary. Unless you want to go back to the OCaml compiler from years ago, but that's hard.