Subject: [bug#32834] [PATCH] gnu: icecat: Build with rust-1.24.

From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 05:44:11 +0000

On September 29, 2018 9:55:36 PM UTC, [email-masked] wrote:
>Hi Efraim,
>
>Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (icecat)[native-inputs]: Use the oldest
>> compatable rust over newer releases when building icecat.
>
>[...]
>
>> +      ;; Icecat 60 checkes for rust>=1.24
>> +     `(("rust" ,rust-1.24)
>> +       ("cargo" ,rust-1.24 "cargo")
>
>I suppose the goal is to reduce the build chain, right?

Right. Currently each round of rust takes about 12 hours on my fast aarch64 board. This built successfully on aarch64 and ng0 was able to build and test it on x86_64.

>Mark, Danny: WDYT?
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.

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