Re: [OE-core] meta-rust -> oe-core

["Anatol Belski" <anbelski@linux.microsoft.com>]

Hi Randy,

thanks for driving progress on this work.

On Tue, 2021-02-16 at 21:40 -0500, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> I've updated poky-contrib with my merge of meta-rust to oe-core:
> 
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=rmacleod/rust-wip-2021-02-16
> 
> The build status is fine (shown below) aside from qemuriscv64/musl
> and qemuppc/musl.
> 
> Khem is working on the qemuriscv64/musl problem with upstream rust
> devs.
> qemuppc/musl fails due to:
>     libunwind.cpp:66:3: error: #error Architecture not supported
> 
> Known issues if someone is interested:
> 
> 1. I have an updated librsvg that isn't building using autotools
>     It does build with cargo but I doubt that will produce a library
>     that is usable. See 
> https://github.com/meta-rust/meta-rust/issues/264
> 
>  
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=rmacleod/librsvg-broken-wip-2021-02-16
> 
> 2. native-sdk support is broken:
>      https://github.com/meta-rust/meta-rust/issues/236
>     As shown in my OE talk last year, you can do rust application
>     development and testing without this but it would be best to
>     fix this bug and have rust behave like other YP toolchains.
> 
I was working on the SDK support some passt weeks and coincidentially
filed a PR yesterday

https://github.com/meta-rust/meta-rust/pull/313

This is definitely a wanted feature. If some would have time for a
review, it'd be great. Please also let me know how it would best be
integrated into your patch.

Thanks

Anatol

> 3. There's an cargo-fetcher proposal sent to the bitbake
>     list from Andreas but I don't see a patch to meta-rust to
>     make the two patchsets work together. Andreas, is that something
>     that you can do, even if it's just a quick change to get started?
> 
> 4. We're (Vinay via WR) working on a way to use the rustc test suite.
>     More to come on that later this week.
> 
> Sorry that this has dragged on for so long.
> Any help would be appreciated.
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