[bug#46162] [PATCH] staging gnu: Add more tools to rust outputs.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Jakub Kądziołka <kuba@kadziolka.net> writes:

> On Tue Feb 16, 2021 at 5:40 PM CET, John Soo wrote:
>> Hi Jakub,
>>
>> Jakub Kądziołka <kuba@kadziolka.net> writes:
>>
>> > I don't think tools beyond rustc and cargo should be included in the
>> > main rust package, as this causes them to be built in each step of the
>> > bootstrap. I believe a better approach would be to define separate
>> > packages for them.
>>
>> Yeah that would make sense. Have we explored any of the incremental or
>> --keep-stage options to speedup the bootstrap?
>
> apteryx mentioned some experiments with those on #mrustc.
>
> Regards,
> Jakub Kądziołka

Those weren't fruitful, but I didn't push it; I think it caused cargo to
fail compiling itself, or its test suite.

Maxim