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I managed to build the rust compiler with a little effort on FreeBSD. I thought I was home free, but when I tried to build Cargo it insisted on downloading and

I managed to build the rust compiler with a little effort on FreeBSD. I thought I was home free, but when I tried to build Cargo it insisted on downloading and building the rust compiler itself (which fails, obviously). So I was more than a little dissapointed after going through the trouble of getting the compiler working and I gave up on cargo. I'm hacking away happily with rust now though, I quite like it so far and am curious to see where it will go from here.

Argorak 12y ago
This is an unfortunate situation currently, but better then the alternative. cargo doesn't tie into the rust compiler (just uses it as a program it calls), but it wants to be always available. Because of that, it builds with a known-good version of Rust to make sure `cargo` can be used in the most recent version on all (supported) platforms. This is due to the instability of Rust. Before that, cargo was always broken, if you didn't have the correct version for building it. This will certainly change once Rust stable released. As all things Rust, the whole ecosystem still has a huge label "in construction". The things that are supported and intended to be kept stable are quite stable, though!