This was supposed to go to rust-dev. Sorry about that. -Manish Goregaokar
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Manish Goregaokar <manishea...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
