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Maybe once I have some actual infrastructure to manage kernel configuration I can make a proper raspberry pi build

@martijnbraam "Just" add a --repositories=bodge-repositories.txt flag to pmbootstrap 😛

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Nodejs is also a dependency for building Firefox since the javascript engine in Firefox itself can't be used to run the javascript components in the build system.

who thought javascript in a build system was a good idea 💀💀💀

@kate who thought using an HTML templating engine to generate rust code was a good idea...

@martijnbraam@fosstodon.org @kate@social.treehouse.systems wait... you can generate rust code from HTML and stop fighting with the borrow checker? What a time to be alive

@martijnbraam Blog post where I'm so glad I don't main firefox anymore.

Also discovered few days ago that https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc got rust 1.74.0 support this december (and gentoo now integrates it in the bootstrap), so if you'd want to cleanup the pre-compiled binaries, maybe it's worth a shot.
Alternative rust compiler (re-implementation). Contribute to thepowersgang/mrustc development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubGitHub - thepowersgang/mrustc: Alternative rust compiler (re-implementation)Alternative rust compiler (re-implementation). Contribute to thepowersgang/mrustc development by creating an account on GitHub.