Re: Clang c++ include path

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
>> variable name.  The reason is that IceCat depends on Rust which depends
>> on Clang, and there is a chain of *18* Rust compilers that must be built
>> before IceCat can be built.  On my system, compiling all of those Rust
>> compilers requires approximately *90 hours* of continuous compiling.
>
> Are you sure that Rust depends on clang?  gnu/packages/rust.scm doesn't have any
> direct reference to "clang" except to remove it.

Ah, you're right, Rust depends on LLVM, but not Clang.  I guess it's
probably fine to fix the Clang C++ include path without introducing new
variable bindings.  Sorry for the mistake.

In a later message, Danny wrote:
> mrustc 0.9 supports bootstrapping Rust 1.29.0.

That's great news :)

    Thank you!
       Mark