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<damo22><(23:20:46) luckyluke: damo22: you can just add it to the gnumach command line> nope that does not work

<damo22>i got a general protection fault on iret

<damo22>right before it spawned a shell

<youpi>$ ./main

<youpi>Hello, world!

<youpi>\o/

<youpi>(rust-compiled)

<youpi>$ ./rustc --print target-list | grep hurd

<youpi>i686-unknown-hurd-gnu

<youpi>$ ~/stage2/bin/rustc src/main.rs

<youpi>Segmentation fault

<youpi>ok, not so complete :)

<damo22>interesting

<Gooberpatrol66>nice

<youpi>$ ./main

<youpi>Hello, world!

<youpi>\o/

<youpi>this time with the hurd rustc running on hurd :)

<youpi>it took me some time to reverse-engineer what actually needs to be copied, rust's x.py build script doesn't do everything...

<kilobug>youpi: congrats :)

<youpi>congrats to vedant ;)

<youpi>he did the painful work :)

<youpi>now, it will take some time to end up in the debian packaging, since that is relatively out-of-date

<youpi>and I think we don't want to spend time on backporting the port work :)

<kilobug>next step is to write bindings so we can write translators in rust ? ;)

<youpi>next step is porting cargo

<youpi>there are probably various syscalls that it makes

<youpi>also, getting the thing actually merged-in

<youpi>well, also, build rust with rust on hurd

<youpi>so we can actually run testsuites etc.

<youpi>for now it was just a "pray & launch"

<kilobug>I see, still lots of work, but nice to see things going forward :)

<youpi>at least it's incremental work

<youpi>once we get the rust port merged in

<nikolar>Kek don't tell me there are plans to use rust in the Hurd

<azert>did I hear it right? rewriting the hurd in rust?

<youpi>there aren't plans

<youpi>just people having ideas

<youpi>just like there was about using perl, scheme, etc.

<youpi>please don't distort/amplify rumors

<youpi>(personnally, I really don't see the rust ecosystem as reasonable, rustc and cargo are not even using the same version of rustix...)

<nikolar>I was joking but I do agree with you youpi

<azert>same

<nikolar>It's a shame it was let into linux

<youpi>from a programming langage point of view it makes a lot of sense

<youpi>but I'm really afraid of the maintenance cost

<youpi>problem being that people pushing for it apparently have a lot of time to spend

<youpi>so that might not show up yet

<azert>it should have been written as a C extension

<nikolar>Also I really hate their need to reimplement everything in rust

<youpi>that also does make some sense

<youpi>I'd way much more trust a rusty libxml than the C libxml

<azert>last time i checked, rust didn't have a stable abi

<nikolar>I really wouldn't trust xml :)

<youpi>3Building bootstrap

<youpi>this is looking good

<youpi>only way slower than on the lab 52-core machine :)

<youpi>bootstrap completed :D

<nikolar>Nice

<youpi>now onto stage 1

<youpi>fortunately I managed to convince it *not* to rebuild a complete llvm and just use the one from debian

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