On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 04:22:17PM -0500, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi Denis, > > Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes: > > > On Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:22:02 -0500 > > Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > > > >> Hi Denis, > > Hi, > > > >> Note that you'll want to use the latest commit available of mrustc, or > >> something recent enough like this in (gnu packages rust) as it > >> includes recent fixes to the (still failing) i686 build: > > With ./build-1.39.0.sh in mrustc, some help from #mrustc, and some local > > patches, I was able to get it build under 4GiB of RAM per process with > > an x86_64 kernel (by removing -O2 and -g), but it fails for 3GiB of RAM > > per process (i686 kernel) no mater what options are passed to it. > > Thank you for doing the experiment and sharing the result! I've relayed > it to mrustc's author here: > https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc/issues/78, I hope you don't > mind. > > > My issue is that claws-mail now depend on rust (it didn't before). As > > several other pakcages also fails on i686 (failing tests), and that I > > also hit a Guix bug, it's hard for me to fix it as everything is > > broken and I need to do workarounds on workarounds. > > The situation with Rust on Guix is far from satisfactory, and the usage > of Rust continues to expand, we'll have to find solutions. GCC-rust > seems like a good candidate to help us bootstrap for more platforms, but > it isn't ready yet. mrustc is the current best option; cross-building > rust could be another thing to do (there's a wip-cross-built-rust branch > that I had started to explore doing this), but it's a messier path. > > > What do I need to revert (locally?) to make claws-mail not depend on > > rust (for i686)? > > I don't see this relationship locally: > > $ guix graph --path claws-mail rust > $ guix describe > 5b95cad85018e64f2a34ef950dd2e5434d07cfc0 > > But looking at the package definition, it explicitly depends on librsvg, > which is a Rust-powered library. You could try to make this input > conditional (e.g., add it only when the system is x86_64), if claws-mail > can be built without it. Specifically, try replacing librsvg with librsvg-for-system -- Efraim Flashner רנשלפ םירפא GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted