State of Rust on DragonFly

[Carsten Mattner]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Zachary Crownover
<zachary.crownover at gmail.com> wrote:
> That won't happen unless we have an active maintainer for it with Rust that
> can get the project to move DragonFly from tier 3 to at least tier 2. I'd
> like to take an active role in that though.

Cool, and I'd like to encourage you.

> On Jun 29, 2017 9:55 AM, "Carsten Mattner" <carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am working on getting Rust 1.18.0 into the ports. There was an issue
>> > with errors happening in parallel builds triggered by cargo (Rust's
>> > package manager also used to build Rust itself). By disabling parallel
>> > builds I were able to successfully bootstrap Rust 1.18.0 from 1.17.0.
>> >
>> > I need to produce dependency-free versions of cargo before I can work on
>> > integrating everything into the ports tree.
>> >
>> > All scripts to bootstrap can be found on [1]. To build Rust 1.18.0, just
>> > run "sh build-1.18.0.sh /working/directory/for/build". Because of the
>> > version of cargo I am currently using, this might only work if you have
>> > the same version of DragonFly (I am working on a statically linked
>> > version of cargo).
>> >
>> > I will keep you updated on the progress. And sorry for the delay. I just
>> > found the issue with cargo two days ago. This issue blocked all my
>> > further efforts.
>>
>> Great work Michael!
>>
>> Please keep it up and ideally get it to the level of FreeBSD so
>> that we can just use rustup to have all of the versions and
>> toolchains and targets available. That would be a dream.