[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bootstrap of rust

[Jordan Justen]

On 2015-01-20 00:25:57, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> + Paul who showed some interest in this :)
> 
> About the bootstrap, I am not sure that copying the compiler in
> debian/dl/ is the best way.
> AFAIK, the "right" way to bootstrap a compiler:
> * Build a local instance of the compiler on your system (whatever the
> method is)
> * Package the newly built compiler
> * Use the package to build compiler
> * Upload this package

Seems reasonable. At this point would we consider using the debian/dl
method to get an initial i386/amd64 rust packages?

We should then be able to drop it for the next build and depend on the
rust package.

-Jordan

> Once the package is in the archive, use the official package to build
> the new version of the compiler.
> 
> However, I might be wrong here. Correct me if it is the case.
> 
> After that, we will have to cross compile it for the other archs (ARM in
> priority).
> 
> Cheers,
> Sylvestre
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