[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1014567: Please ship instructions on how to use this package (and/or sysroot symlinks)

[Faidon Liambotis]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 03:19:03AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> It'd be great if the package shipped with such a symlink structure,
> and/or came with instructions on how one can use this package (either
> with this structure, or, if possible, without).

Upon further research, I found the following comment from upstream to
another distributor (NixOS) that may be relevant:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-libc/issues/269#issuecomment-1067565836

Quoting it here for posterity:
> One difference between wasm-libc and other/normal software that you
> might want to package is that it is designed to be used only within
> the sysroot of a cross compiler. I assume you understand that and are
> creating some kind of packaged sysroot or cross toolchain? Given that,
> does it still make sense to be able to install/redirect headers and
> libraries using the normal packaging machinery that you have? For
> example, if I was packaging for linux I would not want wasm-libc to
> install in the same way the normal library would (i.e. honoring the
> the normal include and library paths).

Best,
Faidon