Re: [PATCH 0/2] rust: add rust-analyzer support

[Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>]

On Thu, 2026-10-01 at 14:56 +0200, Benhur Tessele wrote:
> rust-analyzer is built as part of the Rust tools but was neither
> installed nor packaged. This series packages it and wires it into the
> Rust SDK next to clippy and rustfmt.
> 
> Patch 1 adds a rust-tools-analyzer package for the target and nativesdk
> variants. Beyond the frontend binary it also ships the proc-macro server
> and depends on the standard library sources, both of which are required
> for rust-analyzer to actually function.
> 
> Patch 2 adds it to the cross-canadian toolchain so that an SDK built with
> SDK_FEATURES = "rust" provides rust-analyzer out of the box.
> 
> Testing:
>  - Patches validated with patchset.
>  - Built an SDK with SDK_FEATURES = "rust", installed it in a container,
>    and confirmed rust-analyzer resolves the standard library and expands
>    proc-macros end to end: diagnostics/analysis-stats on a crate using a
>    derive macro succeed, with the proc-macro server started from
>    <sysroot>/libexec.
>  - Built core-image-minimal with rust-tools-analyzer installed, booted it
>    under qemu, and confirmed the rust-analyzer frontend and the
>    rust-analyzer-proc-macro-srv binary are present with their libraries
>    resolving.
> 
> Benhur Tessele (2):
>   rust: package rust-analyzer as rust-tools-analyzer
>   packagegroup-rust-cross-canadian: add rust-analyzer to the SDK

Hi,

Two quick questions here:

1) What's the intended use case for rust-analyzer, particularly on the
   target? I think we need at least a brief reason why it's worth
   enabling this.

2) What impact does this have on the build and package creation time for
   rust?

Best regards,

-- 
Paul Barker