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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

Linus on installing support for development and 'allmodconfig' builds:

"'It really should be as simple as installing the proper distro packages […]. So do the pacman / apt / dnf / emerge / zypper command line to just install the packages […].

Of course, that assumes you have a modern enough distro that it _has_ sufficiently up-to-date rust packages.

So if you are on something like stable, it's simply not worth the pain."'

lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wja

@kernellogger It's too bad that the test bots on LKML use Debian stable or oldstable instead of something like Fedora. None of the bots are validating kernel builds with rust enabled either. 😦

@Conan_Kudo you have a point, but well:

Yes, many of the bot building the kernel afaics run Debian and are are not testing Rust. But it are a lot of companies and projects that run those bots, I'm pretty sure some of them (like the CKI stuff) do not use Debian – and some likely will be testing rust.

And btw[1]:

I myself build ever release of -next on and for Linux:

copr.fedorainfracloud.org/copr

But it's using the Fedora rawhide config not a allmodconfig build – but has bits enabled. So I would notice any big problems in that area -- and in the recent months there were none.

[1] I suspect @Conan_Kudo knows about it, so it's more for others that read this thread

copr.fedorainfracloud.org@kernel-vanilla/next Copr

@kernellogger Yeah, I was the one that enabled Rust in the Fedora kernel. 😉

@Conan_Kudo @kernellogger Intel’s kernel test robot reports rust issues