This page currently links to an old wiki page in rust-lang/rust-wiki-backup. There is a more up-to-date page in-tree so I changed the link to point there so new contributors can find it more easily.
The process for updating rustfmt is quite involved because of the way everything is configured. This section covers the steps for updating rustfmt and rationale behind them.
Add links to headers in README and CONTRIBUTING
this also adds dependencies to CONTRIBUTING
I'm just getting started building the rust compiler and noticed this information/ability was missing.
It was also missing the gdb dependency for running tests. I pulled the information out of `appveyor.yml` and recommended later than 7.1 because that is what [apt ships](https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=trusty&keywords=gdb). Feel free to tell me something different!
expand on using rustup custom toolchains in CONTRIBUTING.md
fixes#42484
Should i include more notes about how to use a local build *without* rustup? It can kinda feel like a cop-out otherwise. Other means that come to mind are setting `$RUSTC` directly and fully installing it.
cc @rust-lang/docs
Add clippy as a submodule
~~This builds clippy as part of `./x.py build` (locally and in CI).~~
This allows building clippy with `./x.py build src/tools/clippy`
~~Needs https://github.com/nrc/dev-tools-team/issues/18#issuecomment-322456461 to be resolved before it can be merged.~~ Contributers can simply open a PR to clippy and point the submodule at the `pull/$pr_number/head` branch.
This does **not** build clippy or test the clippy test suite at all as per https://github.com/nrc/dev-tools-team/issues/18#issuecomment-321411418
r? @nrc
cc @Manishearth @llogiq @mcarton @alexcrichton
This commit switches the default build system for Rust from the makefiles to
rustbuild. The rustbuild build system has been in development for almost a year
now and has become quite mature over time. This commit is an implementation of
the proposal on [internals] which slates deletion of the makefiles on
2016-01-02.
[internals]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/proposal-for-promoting-rustbuild-to-official-status/4368
This commit also updates various documentation in `README.md`,
`CONTRIBUTING.md`, `src/bootstrap/README.md`, and throughout the source code of
rustbuild itself.
Closes#37858
