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Re: Rust bootstraps via i686?
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Danny Milosavljevic |
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Re: Rust bootstraps via i686? |
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Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:40:30 +0100 |
Hi Adam,
On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:56:39 -0500
Adam Van Ymeren <address@hidden> wrote:
> Does anyone know why rust bootstraps itself from the i686 version of the
> binaries even if you're running on x86_64?
It's to cut down on the number of weird binary blobs we use.
> If I can make it bootstrap though the current system in use would that
> be a useful patch
That would be nice, yes.
In the long term, it would be even better to bootstrap from mrust, a C++
implementation of Rust, and remove all the binary blobs.
> or is there some problem with bootstraping from x86_64
> that I'm unaware of?