using cross affects ci workflow

[uncomfyhalomacro]

I just found out that juliaup uses action-rs/cargo with cross set to true which limits installing additional dependencies. These dependencies might be needed for some crates e.g. reqwest with native-tls enabled looks for openssl-dev. The cross tool can actually allow us to make a pre-build hook e.g. install libssl-dev or pkg-config inside the container before running cargo. See cross-rs/cross#678. However action-rs/cargo seems to not have updated to include the pre-build hook. This makes sense since the functionality was added since 2022 while action-rs/cargo has not been updated since 2021

Assuming we have the prebuild hook option, we can do the following to install openssl devel inside the cross container:

    - name: Test
      uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
      with:
        use-cross: true
        pre-build: 'apt-get install -y libssl-dev pkg-config'
        command: check
        args: --target ${{matrix.target}} --features ${{matrix.features}}

There is an open issue at actions-rs/cargo#115 but it's been two years since action-rs/cargo was updated.

This issue affects my PR #613 where I cannot test if my changes build correctly

[uncomfyhalomacro]

Solution:

We can just use vanilla cross without using the github action (or fork it) to add the prebuild hook functionality as described in their README but I haven't tested it.

[uncomfyhalomacro]

Just to add. This also means that apt-get install musl-tools didn't do anything because of cross

[uncomfyhalomacro]

Seems another project noticed - kanidm/webauthn-rs#301

I will open a pull request I guess.

[davidanthoff]

I think this is not really a problem right now? For the certificate situation things work on the PR now. I'm closing for now.