[Buildroot] [PATCH v9 1/8] rustc: new virtual package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:51:39 +0100, Eric Le Bihan wrote:

> diff --git a/package/rustc/Config.in.host b/package/rustc/Config.in.host
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..16c95fa0b4
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/rustc/Config.in.host
> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> +config BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_RUSTC_ARCH_SUPPORTS
> +	bool
> +	default y
> +	depends on BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86_64" || BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86"
> +	depends on BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64 \
> +		|| BR2_arm  || BR2_aarch64 \
> +		|| BR2_powerpc  || BR2_powerpc64 \
> +		|| BR2_mips || BR2_mipsel || BR2_mips64 || BR2_mips64el

This would be more readable as:

	default y if BR2_aarch64
	default y if BR2_arm && !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV4 && !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV5
	default y if BR2_i386
	default y if ...
	default y if BR2_mips || BR2_mipsel
	default y if (BR2_mips64 || BR2_mips64el) && BR2_MIPS_NABI64
	default y if BR2_x86_64

> +	depends on !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV4 && !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV5
> +	depends on !BR2_MIPS_NABI32
> +	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC

Since it's weird for a host package to have a target architecture
dependency and target C library dependency, it would be good to have a
comment that explains this. I assume it's because of the Rust standard
library, so something like:

	# The pre-built Rust standard library is only available for the
	# following architectures/ABIs, and is built against glibc.

> diff --git a/package/rustc/rustc.mk b/package/rustc/rustc.mk
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..4163a44bc1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/rustc/rustc.mk
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +################################################################################
> +#
> +# rustc
> +#
> +################################################################################
> +
> +RUST_ARCH := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_ARCH))
> +
> +ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV7A),y)
> +RUST_ARCH := armv7
> +endif
> +
> +ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_EABI),y)
> +RUST_ABI := eabi
> +else ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_EABIHF),y)
> +RUST_ABI := eabihf
> +else ifeq ($(BR2_mips64)$(BR2_mips64el),y)
> +RUST_ABI := abi64
> +endif

Perhaps this could be defined in the Config.in file as well ?

config BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_RUSTC_ARCH
	string
	default "armv7" 	if BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV7A
	default BR2_ARCH 	if !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV7A

config BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_RUSTC_ABI
	string
	default "eabi" 		if BR2_ARM_EABI
	default "eabihf" 	if BR2_ARM_EABIHF
	default "abi64" 	if BR2_MIPS_NABI64

> +RUST_TARGET_NAME := $(RUST_ARCH)-unknown-linux-gnu$(RUST_ABI)

Why are you using := in this file instead of = ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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