Bug#881845: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#881845: Bug#881845: Bug#881845: Bug#881845: Bug#881845: Bug#881845: Bug#881845: Bug#881845: rustc: FTBFS on mips*: test failures

On 02/10/2018 17:33, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 02/10/2018 17:26, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> Le 02/10/2018 à 16:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
>>> On 10/2/18 4:53 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>>>>> Can you open bug reports against llvm-toolchain-6.0 and llvm-toolchain-7 to
>>>>> make sure, the fix gets backported?
>>>> I would prefer that rustc uses llvm 7 instead of 6.
>>>
>>> What is the current progress with this upstream? I have not followed
>>> up on this part? Sure, I prefer LLVM 7 as well. But as long as Rust
>>> upstream is not ready yet, we have to stick with what we have.
>>
>> Looks like it is what we are using in experimental
>> https://tracker.debian.org/news/990088/accepted-rustc-1300beta7dfsg1-1exp2-source-into-experimental/
> 
> Can you backport the llvm fix to llvm 7?

Actually given 7 is not in testing and rust is not using it atm, what would be
good is to have this backported to llvm 6 asap, so that we can (hopefully) get
rust bootstrapped in mips*, which is blocking quite some stuff.

Thanks,
Emilio