Re: Rust with 9 Beta

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 18:43, Tobias Nygren <tnn%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:27:15 +0200 (CEST)
> Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Now, with that said, the rust bootstrap kits currently don't name the
> > NetBSD OS-version they were built against, and possibly they should.
> > However, I suspect that doing so is not going to be entirely trivial.
> >
> > The route via either a compat80 package or for the time being simply
> > manually extracting the required 8.0 libraries from the old
> > distribution sets is probably easier.
>
> Another way would be to link the bootstrap binaries statically. I'd
> much prefer if we can avoid the overhead of installing compat packages.

On the other hand a netbsd-8 compat package would allow someone to
download current and use release packages, making it substantially
easier for people to play with current (*). The same applies with
testing beta-9.

* it would need to be updated to add more libraries as current develops

David