Re: rust broken on netbsd-7/i386 (2019Q1)

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

>>>> Trying to build, I got an error about libssl.so.12.0 not found.  It
>>>> turns out that it's trying to run a NetBSD 8 binary, so presumably the
>>>> bootstrap kit has gone astray.
>>>
>>> The bootstrap kit is built with NetBSD/i386 8.0 as the target...
>>>
>>> Somehow I was of the impression that netbsd-7 was a lost cause as
>>> a target for rust.
>> 
>> Maybe it is, but it should be marked BROKEN then, vs a mysterious
>> failure.
>
> Mm, true.
>
>> (I say BROKEN rather than NOT_FOR, because I see it as a bug that rust
>> doesn't work there, even if I can't advise anybody to spend time on it.)
>
> I can think of two things which might turn out to be show-stoppers:
> First, the desire to use /proc/self/exe.  I suspect that feature came
> to NetBSD with netbsd-8.  If I recall correctly there was a workaround
> made for this, but I suspect it also needs newer code than what's in
> netbsd-7.  I'm a bit vague on this, as i don't off-hand remember the
> exact details.  The second could very well be that the gcc in netbsd-7
> is quite old, and perhaps too old to build rust.  However, truth be
> told, I have not actually attempted such a build, so "who knows".

I've marked in BROKEN_ON for NetBSD 7 i386.  Should I extend that to all
<=8 and all arches?