Re: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 05/16/2018 07:12 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp> schrieb:
>>  Firefox60 needs rustc (>= 1.24) to be built but rustc in stretch is 1.14.
>>  rustc (>= 1.24) needs llvm-4.0 and cargo but it is not in stretch...
>>
>>  - add llvm-4.0 and cargo to stretch
>>  - backport rustc
>>  - rebuild build-depends: rustc packages?
>>  - firefox-esr 60 to stretch
> 
> I've started to look into this; I have created a llvm-4.0 build
> for stretch and build a bootstrap build of rustc 1.24 against it.
> Those two went fine.
> 
> However cargo's bootstrap is broken ATM which will need fixing (and
> it also requires a more recent libgit than we have in stretch).
> 
> Cheers,
>         Moritz

Thanks for your work, Moritz.

Thomas Goirand (zigo)