[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future: Rustc

[Aurélien Larcher]

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.


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