| 9 Oct 2023 |
 Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | you could build rust 1.72.1 with 1.72.0 i think i have some derivations for building rust with other rusts somewhere | 11:46:47 |
 Alyssa Ross | ideally we'd bootstrap from mrustc, but people don't like it | 11:48:32 |
| Alyssa Ross | current policy is not to keep old versions of rust around | 11:48:42 |
| Alyssa Ross | aha https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/113274 | 11:51:48 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | In reply to @qyliss:fairydust.space
ideally we'd bootstrap from mrustc, but people don't like it yeah it makes the bootstrap path extremely unpleasant | 11:52:59 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | tried it out and it took around a day to get it built on just x86 with two pcs which are decently powerful | 11:53:46 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | tried it out and it took around a day to get rust 1.69 built on just x86 with two pcs which are decently powerful | 11:54:21 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | imagine that times however often nixos has a mass rebuild lol | 11:54:51 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | i think it might be better with cargo2nix since you could relatively easily run that on a server farm | 11:55:34 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | vs standard rust bootstrap which can only run on one system period | 11:56:11 |
 raitobezarius | I would not be shocked to use mrustc for mips though | 12:06:55 |
| Alyssa Ross | mips doesn't seem like the best arch to start with given how little CPU power most MIPS machines have… | 12:08:07 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | yeah… | 12:11:00 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | building a server system on riscv already takes a week lol | 12:11:14 |
| raitobezarius | In reply to @qyliss:fairydust.space
mips doesn't seem like the best arch to start with given how little CPU power most MIPS machines have… right but unsure what would be the best way here | 12:20:38 |
| raitobezarius | I can see easily mrustc bootstrap, keeping old Rust versions around is meh but also second best I suppose, in all cases, it seems like a cross system is better for mips (?) | 12:21:09 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | although i haven't figured out a way to express "cross compile from x target to host target" | 12:22:44 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | although i haven't figured out a way to express "cross compile from x target to host target" in nixpkgs | 12:22:45 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ& | cross compilation maybe? | 12:22:47 |
| raitobezarius | In reply to @lotte:chir.rs
although i haven't figured out a way to express "cross compile from x target to host target" in nixpkgs in nixpkgs or nixos? | 12:26:21 |
