Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 10:30:01 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev>
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: rust triples (WAS: Re: Planning for 3.12 feature freeze)
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:51:20 +0200
Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev> wrote:

> On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 12:46 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > 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  
> 
> No, in the Firefox case it happens because FF has a hardcoded list of
> triplets and we're not on that list. There have been some improvements
> in a third-party crate that FF uses for triplet detection (so
> compilation itself works if FF were to use the latest version...), but
> FF's python configure thingie still needs patches either way.

Ok. I still think we should either use `*-unknown-linux` or `*-alpine-linux`
consistenly only all arches.

I don't know which is to prefer though.

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues/11349

-nc