Debian, Rust, and librsvg

Posted Nov 16, 2018 15:14 UTC (Fri) by Ieee754 (guest, #128655)
In reply to: Debian, Rust, and librsvg by plugwash
Parent article: Debian, Rust, and librsvg

> It's virtually impossible to google anything about rust. If I google say "rust fabricate" most of the results have nothing to do with the language.

I have no idea what you expected from googling "rust fabricate", but if I just go to the documentation site of the toolchain: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/index.html , there is a frickin book about how the Rust toolchain is built, how to run tests, debug issues, configure everything, the overall design of the compiler, the different modules, etc.

Debian, Rust, and librsvg

Posted Nov 17, 2018 2:02 UTC (Sat) by plugwash (subscriber, #29694) [Link]

> I have no idea what you expected from googling "rust fabricate"

I was hoping to find some documentation on what "fabricate" (which was hanging during the rustc build on one of our buildboxes, I suspect a bug in the arm32 compatibility layer of the arm64 kernel on said box) did and how to troubleshoot problems with it.

But instead I just found a load of results about metal fabrication :(

Someone did later tell me what fabricate was (apparently it's the rust-installer crate), though I haven't got around to trying to take a closer look. For now I have been working around the issue by doing our rust builds on a different system.

> there is a frickin book about how the Rust toolchain is built

Using the search tool in said book to search for fabricate doesn't seem to turn up any results.

Still thanks for the pointer.