From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: Rust bootstraps via i686? Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:40:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20171206094030.255979f4@scratchpost.org> References: <874lp6xo5k.fsf@vany.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47995) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMVFx-0006zJ-CD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 03:40:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMVFt-0002VE-Gs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 03:40:41 -0500 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:34362) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMVFt-0002U6-9I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2017 03:40:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874lp6xo5k.fsf@vany.ca> 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: Adam Van Ymeren Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Adam, On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:56:39 -0500 Adam Van Ymeren wrote: > Does anyone know why rust bootstraps itself from the i686 version of the > binaries even if you're running on x86_64? It's to cut down on the number of weird binary blobs we use. > If I can make it bootstrap though the current system in use would that > be a useful patch That would be nice, yes. In the long term, it would be even better to bootstrap from mrust, a C++ implementation of Rust, and remove all the binary blobs. > or is there some problem with bootstraping from x86_64 > that I'm unaware of?