Re: Testing ports of rust software w/o building rustc

Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> writes:

>  Is there a way to avoid having to build rustc and yet test the port in
>  isolation, to be sure I've captured all the dependencies? Or is there
>  something I'm missing here I should be doing?
>
> Try to configure poudriere not to use many parallel jobs. Also try not to put too many things in tmpfs.

Everything else has been built, only rust was left (as it takes
literally hours to build...), so I had only one job running then.

> Additionally you could try poudriere-devel since it has the ability to download packages if they are present in the package
> repository instead of rebuilding them.

Ah-ha! I need to look into that! Sounds almost too good to be true!

> I really enjoy the moment when it downloads llvm, GCC, rustic, cmake, etc :-)

:)