Backports needed for Firefox/Thunderbird ESR 78 in Buster/Stretch

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 01/09/2020 19:17, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:35:42PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 01/09/2020 14:05, Christoph Martin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am not shure if I can help, but I can try and have a look at it.
>>>
>>> Yes please upload your LLVM9 and wasi-libc backports.
>>
>> fwiw I started to look at this and have an LLVM 10 backport ready. Should we go
>> with that instead?
> 
> I'm fine either way. 
> 
>> It may be more future-proof, in case we need it for a future
>> rustc for the next ESR bump.
> 
> My gut feeling is the next ESR thing will need LLVM 11 or so, but happy to
> be proven wrong :-) So maybe let's directly move to 10 directly.
> 
> Once uploaded and acked threw NEW, I'll upload wasi-lib rebuilt against
> LLVM, then.

Status update:

- I've got a rustc bootstrap build (using upstream binaries) ready for
buster/stretch, using LLVM 7 and no wasi-libc.
- cargo using the above rustc and buster/stretch's cargo (no bootstrap necessary)
- cbindgen building with the above

That avoids the LLVM 9/10 update for this round.

I'm currently attempting a build of Firefox 78.2.0 ESR for buster. If that goes
well I'll start uploading things to buster (coordinating with the SRMs).

Cheers,
Emilio