Hi Mark,

On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:55:18 -0500
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
> > I wanted to ask about this: is Rust supported on all the platforms we
> > support at the moment?  
> 
> On hydra.gnu.org, our rust packages can only successfully be built on
> x86_64-linux.  They fail to build on i686-linux and armhf-linux.  I
> don't know about aarch64-linux.

Right.

I've talked to upstream and they acknowledge that there is a problem
but they haven't found it yet.

Since there was no improvement in a reasonable time frame, let's
re-add a binary-only bootstrap rust and use it in case of non-x86_64
in order to have working rust.