Re: Rust dependency on git

[Marius Bakke]

Hi Ivan,

Ivan Petkov <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> The latest stable rust (version 1.35.0) appears to require git as a
> native-input since the tidy test (which checks for code formatting in the rust
> repo) fails because it cannot run `git ls-files`.
>
> I saw a comment in the rust package definition that git changes too frequently
> to be kept as an input[1]. Is anyone aware if this is still a problem?
> I'd rather avoid having to patch the test suite tools to ignore this test
> if it is as simple as adding "git" as a native input.

I would prefer to keep Git out of the Rust bootstrap still.  The reason
is that I don't want to rebuild the whole toolchain for every Git update.

Obviously there are other ways to deal with that, so it's not a very
hard opinion.

It seems odd to me that the release tarballs would run 'git ls-files'
anyway.  Do they actually contain a git repository?  Would it work to
simply replace the invokation with 'find'?

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