How to build rust in solitude?

[ariebs]

I have a situation where I need to be able to and and re-build rust on an x86_64 CentOS system that will never be connected to the web once it goes into service.
To effect that, I

• Downloaded the rust 1.35 binary kit to use as a bootstrap compiler
• Downloaded the rust 1.36 source tar file
• Borrowed most of the ./configure argument list from the EPEL rust src.rpm file:
  --build=${rust_triple}
  --host=${rust_triple}
  --target=${rust_triple}
  --python=/usr/local/bin/python2
  --local-rust-root=${tmp_rust}
  --disable-codegen-tests
  --disable-rpath
  --enable-extended
  --enable-vendor
  --enable-verbose-tests
  --release-channel=static
  --set rust.codegen-units-std=1
• Edited the resulting config.toml file to use GCC 8 for the "cc" and "cxx" compilers

This process gets me really close! But after an hour, the build dies with

test [run-make] run-make-fulldeps/mixing-formats ... ok
test [run-make] run-make-fulldeps/long-linker-command-lines ... ok

failures:

---- [run-make] run-make-fulldeps/linker-output-non-utf8 stdout ----

error: make failed
status: exit code: 2
command: "make"
stdout:
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make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/local/proj/swstack/packages/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/src/test/run-make-fulldeps/linker-output-non-utf8'
...
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/riebs/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/run-make-fulldeps/linker-output-non-utf8/linker-output-non-utf8:/home/riebs/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage2/lib:/home/riebs/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-bootstrap-tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps:/home/riebs/rust/tmp_rust/lib:/home/riebs/sw/gcc/8.2.0/lib64:/home/riebs/sw/gcc/8.2.0/lib:/home/riebs/sw/gdb/8.2/lib:/home/riebs/sw/binutils/2.31.1/lib:/home/riebs/sw/gmp/6.1.2/lib" '/home/riebs/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage2/bin/rustc' --out-dir /home/riebs/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/run-make-fulldeps/linker-output-non-utf8/linker-output-non-utf8 -L /home/riebs/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/run-make-fulldeps/linker-output-non-utf8/linker-output-non-utf8  -L /home/riebs/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/run-make-fulldeps/linker-output-non-utf8/linker-output-non-utf8/zzz$'\xff' exec.rs 2>&1 | "/home/riebs/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/src/etc/cat-and-grep.sh" this_symbol_not_defined
[[[ begin stdout ]]]
error: Argument 6 is not valid Unicode: "/home/riebs/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/run-make-fulldeps/linker-output-non-utf8/linker-output-non-utf8/zzz\xFF"

[[[ end stdout ]]]
Error: cannot match: this_symbol_not_defined
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/riebs/rust/rustc-1.36.0-src/src/test/run-make-fulldeps/linker-output-non-utf8'

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stderr:
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make[1]: *** [all] Error 1

Any thoughts about where I should go from here?

[ariebs]

That is, I need to be able to "build and re-build rust..."

[notriddle]

That's a failure in the test suite. The compiler itself was built just fine.

As for why that test is failing? I have no idea. It reads as if the thing is supposed to give an error, and is designed to check the compiler's ability to handle it?

[ariebs]

Thanks! Not 5 minutes ago, I ran "make check" with that test deleted, and the world was happy again. With your confirmation, I'll proceed with great confidence!