On Thursday, 17 March 2016 12:23:32 UTC, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Martin Stransky <stran...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Is it possible to build Rust from sources before Firefox build executes? > > rustc is written in Rust, so if you only have source code and the > compilers that are currently available in Fedora, you can't build > rustc. At minimum, you need a "stage0" compiler, which is an archived > older rustc binary. (rustc originally bootstrapped with OCaml, but > building the whole history of Rust from the OCaml days to present > every time Fedora builds Firefox seems excessively impractical.)
Out of interest, would that actually involve building every single Linux snapshot from https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/snapshots.txt in sequence? All 319 of them? Thanks Liam Wilson _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
