Hi Guix! I've prepared several patches to improve the rust builds. These changes will require a full bootstrap, as well as rebuilding icecat, so it may be worthwhile to merge this into staging first. The changes include: * Update the `generate-checksums` function in cargo-utils to not require a directory parameter (sha256sum can't support directories. We were previously passing in "/dev/null" as an argument, so now that's assumed internally) * Delete the install logs and manifests generated as part of the build since the ordering of their contents can be nondeterministic * Updated all source definitions to delete extra files/tools that are already present in guix (e.g. deleting any llvm/clang/jemalloc sources). See below for a reduction in the source derivations * Updated rust to 1.34.1 Previous source derivation sizes: /gnu/store/qm2cbc1kxg3i8vibjb2rfxypbfnviqhh-rustc-1.20.0-src.tar.xz 17.9 /gnu/store/c714ii1ansv460anmb9xvicsmavqbkj9-rustc-1.21.0-src.tar.xz 19.4 /gnu/store/k6lc7d7gha3rimcqkiigyrkybqmpk98m-rustc-1.22.1-src.tar.xz 20.8 /gnu/store/zypwd03gw2hzb5z41ndv6fjv6dij7inq-rustc-1.23.0-src.tar.xz 23.5 /gnu/store/cj4yhkrxby93dx1fmiqidsb126pm6xq4-rustc-1.24.1-src.tar.xz 27.7 /gnu/store/fgmrf2k7lrv1y3s9xarv4x5axx0a435k-rustc-1.25.0-src.tar.xz 49.6 /gnu/store/yx98f8mr0wfp6i0la9i09d8n3wiwmg33-rustc-1.26.2-src.tar.xz 48.1 /gnu/store/mra5gy26shx2rgwcyj2cdm1iicss1q51-rustc-1.27.2-src.tar.xz 49.0 /gnu/store/mnznljlfz2py11mzk7l221zc06dsgzjf-rustc-1.28.0-src.tar.xz 49.6 /gnu/store/0r1lx29kf92xvw9f5f5ppsfg4nx9msq2-rustc-1.29.2-src.tar.xz 54.2 /gnu/store/d4g67ykzrp1jy95fgyakfqfrcxlci27j-rustc-1.30.1-src.tar.xz 84.4 /gnu/store/3pcmbdnhr0ifi9acr9zkhv6qakd7zanv-rustc-1.31.1-src.tar.xz 85.3 /gnu/store/6sx4y10n3sv1j0w2c7gjc7xrdp4znsa1-rustc-1.32.0-src.tar.xz 89.6 /gnu/store/ngs326mhbay1c3kgqkwd9ii9zmd36rhm-rustc-1.33.0-src.tar.xz 90.0 /gnu/store/42minb2xm8hhn1rrqkk52fyiids5r8nz-rustc-1.34.0-src.tar.xz 35.3 New source derivation sizes: /gnu/store/czbyvvxwzzd5v5dqbl66p6p25abbjpjb-rustc-1.20.0-src.tar.xz 17.6 /gnu/store/kqrm7sp394x1jnwmv4nal72zz1k03c4d-rustc-1.21.0-src.tar.xz 19.1 /gnu/store/i8fmqj6vwp7bjq7ngmmrwpwc996cf2qn-rustc-1.22.1-src.tar.xz 20.5 /gnu/store/4d9pq03yndgcm86r0rg0cm10p1w041hq-rustc-1.23.0-src.tar.xz 23.2 /gnu/store/k4xdymq32j0gl3r891b1frri4kaqm5wk-rustc-1.24.1-src.tar.xz 27.3 /gnu/store/5s0fbcb5k1y5g945a0pmf59yrqcvw5zg-rustc-1.25.0-src.tar.xz 29.2 /gnu/store/ljcsx3h88xi9bflc9r8krxmqrsw0fn22-rustc-1.26.2-src.tar.xz 27.7 /gnu/store/p9r9qvzpvn977m5zlsbdpaa4kxh6jpih-rustc-1.27.2-src.tar.xz 28.7 /gnu/store/94j66fjaqxx2mj2gcrwx85a1pd7ysm0c-rustc-1.28.0-src.tar.xz 29.2 /gnu/store/nryvkxj9jzv2khiip3da178w5xyamavi-rustc-1.29.2-src.tar.xz 33.8 /gnu/store/6x0cf6m1bw0in8fn5c33n3pb3y7gyk0b-rustc-1.30.1-src.tar.xz 33.8 /gnu/store/k8i6bf0c5dzm34dnfx7qq7wq5hgccfnz-rustc-1.31.1-src.tar.xz 34.7 /gnu/store/0bqbl8jpirdi4g84hylcxj6i500mr93b-rustc-1.32.0-src.tar.xz 35.1 /gnu/store/3hfni09gy7d7n0gnc12s7zfa0lr7c0ff-rustc-1.33.0-src.tar.xz 35.5 /gnu/store/zamc7lhcsjn0hkfs93796xgpbmkccfam-rustc-1.34.1-src.tar.xz 35.3 Thanks, —Ivan