Unbundle all 3rd party libraries.

[cicku]

Hi,

I don't know if it's possible to unbundle all 3rd party libraries. I'm going to package it into Fedora, we disallow bundling in most cases. However before I try to unbundle them, I'd like to see if you are willing to see me doing this since using system libraries may cause problems and I'm not sure if you are willing to fix.

Thanks.

[alexcrichton]

I'm curious, but what are the bundling requirements on fedora? None of the "bundled" packages are distributed as part of a rust installation, they're all statically linked into their respective rust artifacts. Other than that, this is the status of all our bundled repos:

• LLVM - with ./configure --llvm-root=foo you can use a system LLVM
• libuv - we're currently using an unreleased version of libuv I believe, but it's also a fairly small dependency
• gyp - this is just a build dependency of libuv, we can probably get by with a system version
• compiler-rt - this is required by LLVM, it's a pretty small project, but we have a good number of custom patches on top that we need.

[cicku]

1. Static linking is not allowed in most cases in Fedora. If it can be linked shared, then do this.
2. We have a clearly stated guideline:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries

1. Thanks for providing the significant info of the bundled libs list, LLVM is not a problem here, I'm concerned about the uv.
2. compiler-rt, well I can request an exception(maybe) if you have patched it on top of the original code.

[alexcrichton]

What's the version of libuv that fedora is distributing? It looks like we can maintain compatibility with the 0.11 series pretty easily, but there were some big changes from 0.10 to 0.11 that it'd take a much larger amount of support to work with 0.10.

[cicku]

Fedora ships(http://pkgs.org/search/?query=libuv):

1. libuv-0.10.27 in rawhide(will be f21)
2. libuv-0.10.25 in f20

So we are still on 0.10 series line.

[alexcrichton]

Would it be possible to get an exception for libuv? It's a pretty small dependency (if that helps). Additionally, gyp is just a build dependency, we don't install it anywhere.

[cicku]

Maybe uh... Depends on the situation of rust, since I'm just a bystander, I'm not familiar with the compatibility that rust will carry in its series. I need a good explanation from upstream then I will send it to the packaging committee for final decision.

gyp is special, I need to rethink about it.

[thestinger]

libuv / gyp are now removed as part of #17325

[alexcrichton]

The two major native libraries we depend on are LLVM and jemalloc, both of which have options to specify an external build in the configure script, so I'm going to close this.