Subj : Zen
To   : Benny Pedersen
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Jun 14 2026 09:07 pm

Hej Benny!

> about zen, see a vps host at bitfolk.com

I looked at https://bitfolk.com/techspec.html.  I don't believe Xen and Zen are 
the same thing though.

> i will consider them, just not for now, gentoo is supported, so i
> have to learn zen first

From the little I know about it mostly comes from reading kernel docs.  As far 
as gentoo is concerned I see in "linux-7.0.12/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst" the following;

--- ye ol' cut n' paste starts
Gentoo Linux
************

Gentoo Linux (and especially the testing branch) provides recent Rust releases
and thus it should generally work out of the box, e.g.::

        USE='rust-src rustfmt clippy' emerge dev-lang/rust dev-util/bindgen

``LIBCLANG_PATH`` may need to be set.
--- ye ol' cut n' paste ends

As far as my hack n' slash system is concerned it lacks llvm's linker 'ld.lld'.  I did take care of it on one of my test builds, but "make LLVM=1" failed to crapped out about 5 minutes into compilng.  I was using unpatched kernel source downloaded from kernel.org.  The same source worked for "make CC=clang" using the usual suspect 'ld.bfd' from binutils.

I'll probably keep plugging along with gcc for most of what I need linuxie-speaking.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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