[Buildroot] [Patch v7 04/10] rust-bootstrap: new package

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 23-07-17 10:12, Eric Le Bihan wrote:
> This new package fetches a binary snapshot of the Rust compiler,
> suitable to bootstrap the host variant of the Rust compiler.
> 
> To bootstrap rustc version N, rustc N-1 is used.

 Is it really needed/useful to use N-1 to bootstrap with? From the user's
perspective, that's just another useless download, right?

 In fact, this way rust-bootstrap can be eliminated entirely: host-rust-bin can
be used instead. It does complicate things a little bit, because in that case we
should NOT depend on (target) rust-std-bin. So that means that host-rust-bin
shouldn't depend on rust-std-bin, so that dependency should be added in some
different way...

 Regards,
 Arnout

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