Note packaging

Packaging

This page is summarizing some issues with the current (something pre-0.6) rust code which makes it difficult to package for downstream distributions - or even prevents it in some cases (e.g. because it doesn't follow the packaging policy of Fedora).

Issues

Hardcoded libdir

• Issue 5223 An hardcoded libdir is problematic when the downstream distribution uses arch specific libdirs e.g. lib for i686 and lib64 for x86_64

Extensive usage of rpath

• Issue 5219 rpaths are problematic in several ways (see the links given in the issue).

Patched LLVM - ARM only

• Issue 4259 At least for arm based builds rust is using a patched llvm. It seems that a stock llvm can be used for x86 builds.But also see the next issue.

--llvm-root switch doesn't work

• Issue The --llvm-root switch should allow the usage of an external (existing) llvm, but this is currently not working.

Tightly coupled with libuv

• Issue 5563 Rust is currently tighly coupled to libuv. Typically downstream distributions don't allow bundling of 3rdparty libs. A downstream packaging effort should package libuv in advance. It might be a bit problematic to keep libuv and rust versions in sync during this early stage.

Minor notes

• Bootstrap binary is required