Marius Bakke writes:

> Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com> writes:
>
>> Hello Guix!
>>
>> Pierre Langlois writes:
>>
>>> Hi Jakub,
>>>
>>> Jakub Kądziołka writes:
>>>
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>>>> Pierre,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for your patch! I was working on a similar change before, but
>>>> when I tried it, it failed even earlier in the bootstrap chain. It
>>>> might've been QEMU weirdness, though, a la #42448.
>>>>
>>>>> @@ -612,9 +613,10 @@ jemalloc = \"" jemalloc "/lib/libjemalloc_pic.a" "\"
>>>>>                         (cargo-out (assoc-ref outputs "cargo")))
>>>>>                     (for-each
>>>>>                       (lambda (file) (delete-manifest-file out file))
>>>>> -                     '("install.log"
>>>>> +                     `("install.log"
>>>>>                         "manifest-rust-docs"
>>>>> -                       "manifest-rust-std-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
>>>>> +                       ,,(string-append "manifest-rust-std-"
>>>>> +                                        (nix-system->gnu-triplet-for-rust))
>>>>>                         "manifest-rustc"))
>>>>>                     (for-each
>>>>>                       (lambda (file) (delete-manifest-file cargo-out file))
>>>>
>>>> If I understand the code correctly, this quasiquote is unnecessary, as
>>>> the host-side code will evaluate to a string that can be inserted as-is,
>>>> without another unquote on the build side.
>>>>
>>>> Fixing this would mean that the patch can go on master, since it would
>>>> now only trigger rebuilds on architectures that are already broken.
>>>
>>> Ooooh yeah, that'll be much better, I've attached a patch that does just
>>> that. I can confirm it doesn't trigger a full rebuild, nice!
>>>
>>
>> I've just rebased this patch and fixed a little formatting issue. I've
>> made sure, it doesn't trigger any rust rebuilds on x86.
>>
>> Is this OK to commit?
>
> LGTM!  Thanks a lot for tackling this long-standing issue.

Thanks! Pushed as 2bab532fdfaa54a085abc0ac7fc2c859ee31f640.

>
> Were you able to build all the way to the latest Rust?

No not yet :-/, I got it building up to 1.26, having to fix most steps
with tests failing here and there. In the end I ran out of steam trying
to build 1.27 and thought we'd be better off waiting until we can
bootstrap from 1.29. I don't remember exactly what issues I had with
1.27, I've attacked my WIP patch in case somebody is interested
actually!

After that, I gave the patches on https://issues.guix.gnu.org/38110 a
go, however as Danny mentions on the thread, linking consumes too much
memory. I'm using a RockPro64 and it only has 4G of RAM.

Somebody on github https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc/issues/138
mentioned we could try building with LLD so I tried that as well (patch
attached) but memory consumption was still too much. That being said, I
might not have had any swap file at the time, I'll try again :-).

Soooo, yeah I don't know what the best approach is. We can try and get
the current chain building and start upstreaming bits of my WIP patch or
try and find a solution for the mrustc memory issue.

Anyway, I haven't given up! :-) I'd really like to see IceCat on aarch64
eventually for the PineBook Pro. Although there are quite a few other
things to fix on that platform first.

Thanks,
Pierre