[SOLVED] When building rust-1.17.0, after building libstd: error[E0463]: can't find crate for `std`

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When I try to build rust-1.17.0 using the system installation of rust-1.16.0, I run into an error where rustc cannot find the newly built libstd when building stage0-test:

Building stage0 test artifacts (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
Dirty - /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-test/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release
running: "/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/cargo-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/cargo/bin/cargo" "build" "-j" "4" "--target" "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "-v" "--release" "--manifest-path" "/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/src/libtest/Cargo.toml"
   Compiling term v0.0.0 (file:///var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/src/libterm)
   Compiling getopts v0.0.0 (file:///var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/src/libgetopts)
     Running `/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/bootstrap/debug/rustc --crate-name term src/libterm/lib.rs --crate-type dylib --crate-type rlib --emit=dep-info,link -C prefer-dynamic -C opt-level=2 -C metadata=3a0fef509712fa1f -C extra-filename=-3a0fef509712fa1f --out-dir /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-test/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -L dependency=/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-test/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps -L dependency=/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-test/release/deps`
     Running `/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/bootstrap/debug/rustc --crate-name getopts src/libgetopts/lib.rs --crate-type dylib --crate-type rlib --emit=dep-info,link -C prefer-dynamic -C opt-level=2 -C metadata=b6a379af3b1f8c20 -C extra-filename=-b6a379af3b1f8c20 --out-dir /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-test/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -L dependency=/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-test/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps -L dependency=/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-test/release/deps`
error[E0463]: can't find crate for `std`

error: aborting due to previous error

error: Could not compile `term`.

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/bootstrap/debug/rustc --crate-name term src/libterm/lib.rs --crate-type dylib --crate-type rlib --emit=dep-info,link -C prefer-dynamic -C opt-level=2 -C metadata=3a0fef509712fa1f -C extra-filename=-3a0fef509712fa1f --out-dir /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-test/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -L dependency=/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-test/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps -L dependency=/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-test/release/deps` (exit code: 101)
Build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error[E0463]: can't find crate for `std`

error: aborting due to previous error

error: build failed


command did not execute successfully: "/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/cargo-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/cargo/bin/cargo" "build" "-j" "4" "--target" "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "-v" "--release" "--manifest-path" "/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.17.0/work/rustc-1.17.0-src/src/libtest/Cargo.toml"
expected success, got: exit code: 101

Before I ran into this error, I tried to build rust using the official rustc-1.16.0 tarball, which failed for more obvious reasons with the same error in stage0 when building the first rustc -- that rustc tarball does include libstd, but is missing libcore on which it depends.

I am mostly following the official building-from-source documentation (README.md in the rust GitHub repo), with the notable exception that I am not making use of cargo's online registry, in order to have a network-less build.

The full build log and build script (Gentoo ebuild) is available.

I would be very glad if someone could hint me at what I am doing wrong.

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How are you building it?

The way to build from master is:

$ ./configure
$ ./x.py build -j 8

Haven't had to build from source tarballs, so I'm not sure if ./x.py is included, but that script deals with bootstrapping.

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The README suggests that configuration is done through config.toml, which shall be followed by ./x.py build. ./configure is only mentioned way down in the document as a legacy method of building, and instead of ./x.py build, the README suggests that ./configure should be followed by make.

Should the README be fixed to explain what you mentioned in your post here?

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FWIW, even Rust's own CI script still uses configure and make, so that shouldn't be the problem. Both the Makefile and x.py are just a wrappers calling bootstrap.py anyway.

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I use ./configure --enable-debug, had missed that ./configure was no longer needed on a clean clone. Indeed all you need to do to build from master is ./x.py build.

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I found the cause by reading librustc_metadata/locator.rs, section "Where to look?": The rustc tarball only contains the compiler. Included libstd-*.so and other libraries are those necessary to run the compiler, but they are not sufficient to build anything with it. For that the rust-std tarball is needed in addition, which contains all libraries and metadata to build for a specific target. A rust tarball exists, which bundles the contents of the rustc tarball and rust-std and also contains rust-docs and cargo in addition.

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