Re: lang/rust on aarch64eb

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

>> Unexpected rustc version: 1.77.1, we should use 1.78.x/1.79.0 to build
>> source with 1.79.0
> ...
>> I don't understand Rust at all. "Unexpected rustc version" is an
>> error?
>
> Yep.  They only guarantee "one version backward compatibility for
> building rust itself", primarily due to the rather flud state of
> the language itself.  That means that you must have 1.78.x or a
> binary of 1.79 to build 1.79.0 from source.

Oh, this made me think ... why are you even seeing this error
message?  Pkgsrc-wip basically gets all the rust versions, the
most recent is in rust182 and/or rust182-bin.  And ... if you try
to build rust 1.79.0 using wip/rust179 I do not think the above
error will occur.

Regards,

- Håvard