[bug#38110] [PATCH core-updates v3] gnu: rust: Bootstrap rust@1.29.0 by mrustc@0.9.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello Marius,

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Marius,
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 23:16:07 +0100
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > Building rust, I get a texinfo build failure:
>>
>>> How are you building Rust?  I've only used the Guix package definition
>>> and did not get as far as actually running the test suite.  Do you have
>>> an updated build script?
>>
>> It's failing in texinfo, not in rust.
>
> Oh right, sorry for the confusion.
>
>> Also, on my laptop, it's not failing in texinfo.  So I guess it has
>> something to do with bayfront or the machines it offloads to.
>
> I haven't seen this in the countless times I've built core-updates over
> the last few months, nor on Berlin.  I suspect it has to do with
> parallelism; can you see if #:parallel-tests? #f makes a difference?
>
> You should be able to grab a Texinfo substitute from ci.guix.gnu.org
> though.

I don't recall how close or how far it was from actually building, but
attached is a modified version of Danny's patch I was working on, that
applies to current core-updates:

0001-gnu-rust-Bootstrap-rust-1.29.0-by-mrustc-0.9.patch
Description: Text Data

Perhaps it can be useful.

Maxim