A few days ago I was setting up a clean Rust build, and I wanted to avoid the llvm build.
For some reason, the apt-get install from the Travis file didn't work -- there were gpg issues. Eventually I ended up using Servo's llvm snapshot. Which was fine with me. However, the only reason I knew that we could do this was because I've worked with Rust's travis file before and knew that llvm could be apt-get'ed with some gpg jugglery. Today, a friend of mine was trying to build Rust, and he had no clue about this -- so went to build LLVM. LLVM takes *very* long to compile -- perhaps we should make the apt-get alternative more visible somehow? Compile times can be a put off to newbies. Even better, provide our own llvm snapshot on rust-lang.org that gets downloaded with the right configure flag, perhaps even making this the default option. Servo does this for Rust, and it's a rather smooth experience. -Manishearth _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
