From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Van Ymeren Subject: Rust bootstraps via i686? Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:56:39 -0500 Message-ID: <874lp6xo5k.fsf@vany.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56603) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLwrE-0001i8-6u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:56:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLwr9-0006nl-AF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:56:52 -0500 Received: from mail2.vany.ca ([142.54.190.254]:47658) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLwr9-0006nU-5M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:56:47 -0500 Received: from adamvy-laptop (unknown [192.159.178.248]) by mail2.vany.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CF288AC05A3 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:56:40 -0600 (CST) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Does anyone know why rust bootstraps itself from the i686 version of the binaries even if you're running on x86_64? This results in having to download a build a lot of packages to build rust on x86_64. If I can make it bootstrap though the current system in use would that be a useful patch or is there some problem with bootstraping from x86_64 that I'm unaware of? Thanks! -Adam