My understanding is that upstream still supports doing this. If that is true, is there some reason we do not in Gentoo?
(In reply to William Hubbs from comment #0) > My understanding is that upstream still supports doing this. If that is > true, is there some reason we do not in Gentoo? Upstream has issue with it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46995
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3a5b9598e49664cf3b11fb276adae40093c40d9e commit 3a5b9598e49664cf3b11fb276adae40093c40d9e Author: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-11-15 09:27:27 +0000 Commit: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-11-15 09:27:45 +0000 dev-lang/rust: fix inconsistency, optionally use system LLVM Fixes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/663240 Signed-off-by: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org> Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.51, Repoman-2.3.11 dev-lang/rust/metadata.xml | 1 + dev-lang/rust/rust-1.30.1-r1.ebuild | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
So there is now optional support for this, please give it a shot and report any issues you find.