Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:46:14 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Planning for 3.12 feature freeze
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:35:58 +0200
Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev> wrote:

> As for fixing the rust triplets: I started to doubt if that's actually
> useful. I mean it _is_ nice to have a custom triplet with our name on
> it for the options we set, but right now there are some really weird
> issues during compilation with custom triplets that I can't seem to get
> behind and we currently have to work around some rust crates not
> working with custom triplets and needing patches (see e.g. FF).

I believe those problems comes from inconsistent triples, at least in
the firefox case? I think the firefox patch is an ugly hack for a
different underlying problem.

-nc

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rasmus
> 
> On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 12:14 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > Hi!
> > ...
> > Once we have the builder up, we should avoid do significant changes
> > in
> > toolchains and dependencies that influences how packages are built.
> > For example:
> > 
> > ...
> >  - rust
> > ...
> > 
> > I would also like to fix rust triples to be consistent[3].
> > 
> > 
> > [1]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues/11017
> > [2]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues/11260
> > [3]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues/11349