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TMI: rustpkg
Apr. 4th, 2013 11:25 pmRust 0.6 happened!
I set aside the trans bug I was working on before, just like I said I would do, because trans badly needs the Hatchet of Refactoring, but now is not the time.
Instead, I went back to working on rustpkg; the work that needs to be done is now better outlined (by Graydon). In the meantime, though, I'd wanted to make rustpkg able to build an actual, existing package and infer the package name and version from the path name. I succeeded in doing this today, with rust-sdl, except that I got some warnings at the end about the Android back-end that I need to investigate. The notable thing is that rust-sdl previously had a Makefile that renamed a symbol in the existing SDL library before building; I ported that logic into a package script -- a Rust file -- instead, so now it builds without a Makefile.
Of course, one of the things rustpkg needs to do is build packages that don't have a pkg.rs file -- in the current trunk version, it always requires one -- so perhaps I didn't pick the best example package to start with.
I set aside the trans bug I was working on before, just like I said I would do, because trans badly needs the Hatchet of Refactoring, but now is not the time.
Instead, I went back to working on rustpkg; the work that needs to be done is now better outlined (by Graydon). In the meantime, though, I'd wanted to make rustpkg able to build an actual, existing package and infer the package name and version from the path name. I succeeded in doing this today, with rust-sdl, except that I got some warnings at the end about the Android back-end that I need to investigate. The notable thing is that rust-sdl previously had a Makefile that renamed a symbol in the existing SDL library before building; I ported that logic into a package script -- a Rust file -- instead, so now it builds without a Makefile.
Of course, one of the things rustpkg needs to do is build packages that don't have a pkg.rs file -- in the current trunk version, it always requires one -- so perhaps I didn't pick the best example package to start with.