[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Directly bootstrapping arm architectures

[Ximin Luo]

Sylvestre Ledru:
> Le 20/07/2016 à 02:07, Angus Lees a écrit :
> This would be amazing to have it on all archs.
> 
> I don't have any issue using orig-dl to bootstrap an arch. However, this
> limits us on the arch supported by upstream.
> I don't think they are going to support as many archs as LLVM...
> 

Alright, I've done the upload. rustc arm64 is now in Debian (yay), but the armhf and armel versions didn't work:

- armel: nodejs is not available, debian/rules just says "unsupported" but not why. We might be able to hack around it, but I didn't have the time for that.
- armhf: see README.Debian in our rustc git repo. Basically rust upstream expects NEON instructions, Debian armhf expects the opposite.

Due to time constraints I'll have to pause work on this for the time being.

> Therefor, a cross-compile approach would probably be better for the
> future of rust in Debian.
> 

Yeah, At Some Point (TM) we'll have to define a nice process for this so the buildds can do it automatically.

X

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