[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future: Rustc

[Carsten Grzemba]

On 01/26/18 10:41 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Carsten Grzemba <grzemba at contac-dt.de>
> wrote:
>
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>> On 25.01.18 19:58, Alan Coopersmith  <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/25/18 10:40 AM, russell wrote:
>>>> Is there any immediate danger of Mozilla retiring the 32bit version of
>> Firefox?
>>> I believe the most immediate item of concern is that Firefox now uses
>> code
>>> written in Rust, so you'll be limited to platforms that the Rust compiler
>>> generates code for, and I don't know if anyone is bothering to do 32-bit
>> code
>>> generation for Solaris/illumos in Rust.
>>>
>> I did some attempts to package rustc for OI, based on the kind of SmartOS,
>> but with no success for now:
>> https://github.com/cgrzemba/oi-userland/tree/rust/
>> components/developer/rust
>>
>> For Rust community is Solaris a tier 3 platform which means no support.
>> But the recipe tries to download the rust-std library wich is not
>> available for Solaris.
>> I have no pkgsrc build system to see how it works for SmartOS.
>> I would be grateful if anyone can give some advice.
>>
> I created a component for Rust some time ago.
> I'll try to push it later today as an example.
> Not sure whether it will work with recent versions.
>
>
I updated my work on github but it throws still erros on build because 
it use cc instead of gcc for linking, although I set

--default-linker=gcc

and


RUSTFLAGS="-C linker=gcc"


The similar setup works with pkgsrc on smartos.


Perhaps someone has an idea?