Bug 2180042

Summary:	unbundle cbindgen: latest version is available from Fedora repos
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Fabio Valentini <decathorpe>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	MODIFIED ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	39	CC:	erack, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, klaas, pjasicek, rstrode, sandmann, stransky
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Description Fabio Valentini 2023-03-20 15:41:37 UTC

It looks like firefox bundles cbindgen + its dependencies just to build the "cbindgen" binary, which is then only used during the build process but not shipped.

This should not be necessary: cbindgen has been packaged for Fedora for a while, and the latest version is available from the repositories (the "cbindgen" package provides "/usr/bin/cbindgen"):
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-cbindgen/

Dropping the vendor tarball for cbindgen + its dependencies and using /usr/bin/cbindgen from the cbindgen package directly should also slightly reduce build times for firefox (on the order of ~15 minutes).

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2023-03-21 09:46:49 UTC

Do you mind to attach a patch for it?
Thanks.

Comment 2 Fabio Valentini 2023-03-22 23:20:33 UTC

I can try :)

Comment 3 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 07:12:01 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.