rust / rustup

[rhysforyou]

Not unsurprisingly, Rust doesn't seem to install currently:

Rhyss-iPhone:~# curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
curl: (56) LibreSSL SSL_read: error:06FFF064:digital envelope routines:CRYPTO_internal:bad decrypt, errno 0
rustup: command failed: downloader https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/i686-unknown-linux-gnu/rustup-init /tmp/tmp.aMfBBO/rustup-init

Mostly reporting here so we can add it to the compatibility table.

[tbodt]

That error is fixed in the master branch, but then you get a different one.

[rhysforyou]

As of the latest build, here’s what I get when running that command:

Rhyss-iPhone:~# curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
info: downloading installer
sh: can't open /dev/tty: no such file

[tbodt]

That error is the same as the one preventing ssh from reading passwords from stdin.

[jasonehines]

I installed bash and ran the script with -y to get around the tty issue, but it then just crashed the entire app

[tbodt]

/dev/tty and segfault issues are fixed, but now it turns out rustup doesn't work on alpine. You'll have to install rust through apk.

[tbodt]

And you can't install rust through apk because they only have 64-bit binaries...

[amanjeev]

@tbodt so rust works or doesn't work? I cannot install it via apk or rustup script. I am asking because you moved the card to "Works". 😄

[tbodt]

It doesn’t work and I’m not sure how to make it work. Maybe I should make a new column for that sort of thing?

[amanjeev]

I would vote for a new column with a label like help needed? It might encourage contribution as well as a side effect. What do you think?

[tbodt]

I moved it back to Doesn’t Work. Possibilities for getting it to work:

• Install 32-bit glibc. This requires building it from source.
• Build rustc from source for 32-bit musl. This is not supported by the rust project.
• Switch to a Linux distribution that uses glibc, like Ubuntu. This would make the app download 10 times bigger, and require a reinstall to get it if I don’t implement multiple root filesystems first.
• Make iSH support 64-bit. This would take probably at least 6 months.

[amanjeev]

@tbodt Thank you for the response. I have little experience with system programming like this so I really cannot comment on any of those solutions except that Rust support isn't that urgent so if you have a plan for 64-bit support, I would vote for that instead of anything else.

And if you can plan out and want to farm out some tasks for newbies like me, this could be fun as well. Maybe? 😀

[tbodt]

I would love to have more people contributing, but this is not an easy project to contribute to. You’d need to be pretty good at C and Linux to work on it.