From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 15:20:20 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [Patch v4 2/3] cargo-bootstrap: new package In-Reply-To: <20170408093406.GB32154@itchy> References: <20170402194651.28684-1-eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr> <20170402194651.28684-3-eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr> <1491548799.26127.5.camel@embedded.rocks> <20170408093406.GB32154@itchy> Message-ID: <20170408152020.12a89c69@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Sat, 8 Apr 2017 11:34:06 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote: > Hi! > > On 17-04-07 09:06:39, J?rg Krause wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > > > On Sun, 2017-04-02 at 21:46 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote: > > > This new package fetches a binary snapshot of Cargo, suitable for the > > > host, in order to bootstrap the Rust compiler and Cargo, the package > > > manager. > > > > Why not build it from source? > > Cargo uses Cargo as its build system, so you need to have a working > version of Cargo on the host system to build a new version from the > source code. > > To build the Rust compiler a binary snapshot is enough. Can you update the commit log to make it clearer? I guess whenever there's a question on a patch, it often indicates that the commit log was not detailed enough. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com