add to package repositories

[BurntSushi]

It'd be nice to at least get it into Ubuntu and homebrew. Sadly, I think either one of those will be quite difficult since Rust isn't packaged in either one of them.

The lowest hanging fruit is the Archlinux User Repository (AUR).

Fedora is getting Rust packaged soon, so that may be plausible.

Sadly, we may need to live with binaries distributed here for the time being.

[BurntSushi]

I now have a brew formula and an Archlinux PKGBUILD. I also added ripgrep to the Archlinux user repository.

Sadly, the brew formula isn't actually in Homebrew, and it downloads a binary, which is really bad form. I'd like to fix it, but I'm not quite sure how.

[tekacs]

rust does appear to be packaged in Homebrew (http://braumeister.org/formula/rust) - just a heads-up.

The current approach uses a 'bottle' and so pulls binaries and should work just fine. It /does/ install cargo. It currently builds from source on the latest macOS Sierra, because the formula hasn't been updated to include a bottle for that yet.

[BurntSushi]

@tekacs Oh, cool, somehow I missed that! I'll check that out, because I definitely want to get ripgrep into brew proper if that's possible.

[mwean]

I tried to create a formula for it:

class Ripgrep < Formula
  desc "ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep"
  homepage "https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep"
  url "https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/archive/#{version}.tar.gz"
  version "0.1.17"
  sha256 "b558b6650bfa9cf0fd0fa58a8617cafc7c819ee25a26d15ca2ce39979dd18a18"

  depends_on "rust" => :build

  def install
    system "cargo", "build"
  end

  test do
    system bin/"rg", "--help"
  end
end

But couldn't get it to build. The first time I tried, it was stuck on make for over an hour before I killed it. Then I got this error:

Last 15 lines from /Users/Matt/Library/Logs/Homebrew/rust/02.make:
[ 22%] Building CXX object lib/Support/CMakeFiles/LLVMSupport.dir/SearchForAddressOfSpecialSymbol.cpp.o
[ 23%] Building CXX object lib/Support/CMakeFiles/LLVMSupport.dir/Signals.cpp.o
[ 23%] Building CXX object lib/Support/CMakeFiles/LLVMSupport.dir/TargetRegistry.cpp.o
[ 23%] Building CXX object lib/Support/CMakeFiles/LLVMSupport.dir/ThreadLocal.cpp.o
[ 23%] Building CXX object lib/Support/CMakeFiles/LLVMSupport.dir/Threading.cpp.o
[ 23%] Building CXX object lib/Support/CMakeFiles/LLVMSupport.dir/TimeValue.cpp.o
[ 23%] Building CXX object lib/Support/CMakeFiles/LLVMSupport.dir/Valgrind.cpp.o
[ 23%] Building CXX object lib/Support/CMakeFiles/LLVMSupport.dir/Watchdog.cpp.o
[ 23%] Linking CXX static library ../libLLVMSupport.a
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: file: ../libLLVMSupport.a(ThreadPool.cpp.o) has no symbols
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: file: ../libLLVMSupport.a(ThreadPool.cpp.o) has no symbols
[ 23%] Built target LLVMSupport
[ 23%] Built target obj.llvm-tblgen
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [/private/tmp/rust-20160924-69301-1t6mv0r/rustc-1.11.0/x86_64-apple-darwin/llvm/llvm-finished-building] Error 2

READ THIS: https://git.io/brew-troubleshooting
If reporting this issue please do so at (not Homebrew/brew):
  https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues

These open issues may also help:
rust: disable stable on 10.12 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/4962

I'm not familiar with Rust at all, but maybe some of this will help you.

[est31]

Rust is packaged for both ubuntu and debian.

[priyadarshan]

Ripgrep is such an excellent tool. It would be nice to have it in FreeBSD ports, too.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-submitting.html

Do I understand correctly that, if one install rust:

http://www.freshports.org/lang/rust/
http://www.freshports.org/devel/cargo/

then ripgrep is easy to install with cargo install ripgrep?

[mwean]

It looks like there's some problem installing rust on Sierra, so I won't be able to get the formula working. @BurntSushi can you try adding the formula a posted locally and trying to install?

[Stebalien]

It looks like a trusted user just put ripgrep into Arch Linux's [community] repo.

[BurntSushi]

Yup, many many thanks to @svenstaro!

[patrickdepinguin]

Please consider a gentoo ebuild too.

[passcod]

@BurntSushi could you mention that the Arch package is in [community]? It was confusing that it 404'd on the AUR and didn't install without refreshing package databases.

[svenstaro]

@passcod: @BurntSushi just merged #92 which fixed that.

[passcod]

Awesome and thanks again @svenstaro!