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                        Improve tips when installing tier 3 targets such as `wasm32-wasip2`
Verification
- [X] I searched for recent similar issues at https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen%2Cclosed and found no duplicates.
- [X] I am on the latest version of Rustup according to https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/tags and am still able to reproduce my issue.
Problem
Installing the wasm32-wasip2 target on stable fails consistently with a confusing error message.
Steps
The command and error is:
$ rustup target add wasm32-wasip2 --toolchain stable
error: toolchain 'stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' does not contain component 'rust-std' for target 'wasm32-wasip2'; did you mean 'wasm32-wasip1'?
note: not all platforms have the standard library pre-compiled: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html
There are a few inconsistencies:
- That link always goes to nightly, notstabledocumentation.
- Both nightly platform support and stable platform support pages show the same table for wasm32-wasip2support:rust-stdis supported.
- The Rustup component availability page "Rustup packages availability on ..." shows rust-stdas an available component forwasm32-wasip2.
Possible Solution(s)
No response
Notes
No response
Rustup version
$ rustup --version
rustup 1.26.0 (1980-01-01)
info: This is the version for the rustup toolchain manager, not the rustc compiler.
info: The currently active `rustc` version is `rustc 1.80.1 (3f5fd8dd4 2024-08-06)`
Installed toolchains
$ rustup show
Default host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
rustup home:  /home/friel/.rustup
installed toolchains
--------------------
stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (default)
beta-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
installed targets for active toolchain
--------------------------------------
wasm32-wasi
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
active toolchain
----------------
stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (default)
rustc 1.80.1 (3f5fd8dd4 2024-08-06)
OS version
$ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04 LTS"