[PATCH 1/2] cargo.eclass: for EAPI 9, ban cargo_src_install
Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> Thu, 28 May 2026 17:56:25 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
This was always a terrible idea. cargo pretends to be a package manager and a build system, but is neither -- only a compiler-wrapper. "cargo install" recompiles the binary so it is not what you tested in src_test. It does so during the src_install phase, and it (mostly?) doesn't respect incremental builds or caching intermediate outputs. It also cannot install anything other than what doexe does, since cargo doesn't support *building* multiple output types, let alone installing them in a uniform way. Simply require users to use doexe like for any other package without a standard (autotools, meson, cmake etc.) build system. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> --- eclass/cargo.eclass | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/eclass/cargo.eclass b/eclass/cargo.eclass index 10018334ebdb..18cb2156cc8f 100644 --- a/eclass/cargo.eclass +++ b/eclass/cargo.eclass @@ -826,9 +826,13 @@ cargo_src_compile() { # In some cases workspaces need an alternative --path parameter. # Defaults to '--path ./' if no path is specified. # '--path ./somedir' can be passed directly to cargo_src_install. +# +# Banned starting EAPI 9. cargo_src_install() { debug-print-function ${FUNCNAME} "$@" + [[ ${EAPI} = 8 ]] || die "cargo.eclass: src_install no longer provided since EAPI 9" + _cargo_check_initialized set -- "${CARGO}" install $(has --path ${@} || echo --path ./) \ -- 2.53.0