[Buildroot] [Patch v4 2/3] cargo-bootstrap: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat, 8 Apr 2017 11:34:06 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 17-04-07 09:06:39, Jörg Krause wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > On Sun, 2017-04-02 at 21:46 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:  
> > > This new package fetches a binary snapshot of Cargo, suitable for the
> > > host, in order to bootstrap the Rust compiler and Cargo, the package
> > > manager.  
> >
> > Why not build it from source?  
> 
> Cargo uses Cargo as its build system, so you need to have a working
> version of Cargo on the host system to build a new version from the
> source code.
> 
> To build the Rust compiler a binary snapshot is enough.

Can you update the commit log to make it clearer? I guess whenever
there's a question on a patch, it often indicates that the commit log
was not detailed enough.

Thanks!

Thomas
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