rustup: installing it via portage?

[OwenChia]

Rustup is the recommended method of installation now, should we write a ebuild for it like archlinux?

More: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4inmpb/lets_talk_about_rustuprs/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/rustup/

[suhr]

Is there a reason not to install it via portage?

UPDATE: the reason actually exists: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/953

[OwenChia]

better support for cross-compilation?

[rth]

Is there a reason not to install it via portage?

It is also unclear how to optionally get the unstable compiler (needed for some features) that is very straightforward with rustup.

[o01eg]

unstable compiler is dev-lang/rust-9999 or dev-lang/rust-bin-9999

[waynr]

UPDATE: the reason actually exists: rust-lang/rustup.rs#953

It looks like there is a way to work around this that should be simple to integrate into a portage-installed rustup: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup.rs/issues/953#issuecomment-318650338

You can bypass the check by setting RUSTUP_INIT_SKIP_PATH_CHECK to yes:

I'm about to switch over to gentoo from debian and would be happy to take this issue on as my first contribution to the community.

[theoparis]

Any updates on this? @waynr

rust-bin-9999 doessn't exist 😕