nix v0.15.0 on riscv platform

[kush930]

Hi all,

I am building firefox, during building time i am facing nix package issue.

I am using gcc version 10.2.0. and glibc 3.2 during firefox building time i am facing nix package issue on target board riscv64.

nix 0.15.0 and cargo 1.63.0, I am using on target board

Compiling nix v0.15.0
 1:52.61 error[E0432]: unresolved import `self::consts`
 1:52.62   --> /home/root/luvkhush/firefox/third_party/rust/nix/src/sys/ioctl/linux.rs:50:15
 1:52.62    |
 1:52.62 50 | pub use self::consts::*;
 1:52.63    |               ^^^^^^ could not find `consts` in `self`
 1:53.92 error[E0425]: cannot find value `SIZEBITS` in this scope
 1:53.92   --> /home/root/luvkhush/firefox/third_party/rust/nix/src/sys/ioctl/linux.rs:59:50
 1:53.93    |
 1:53.93 59 | pub const DIRSHIFT: ioctl_num_type = SIZESHIFT + SIZEBITS as ioctl_num_type;
 1:53.94    |                                                  ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
 1:53.97 error[E0425]: cannot find value `SIZEBITS` in this scope
 1:53.97   --> /home/root/luvkhush/firefox/third_party/rust/nix/src/sys/ioctl/linux.rs:66:44
 1:53.97    |
 1:53.98 66 | pub const SIZEMASK: ioctl_num_type = (1 << SIZEBITS) - 1;
 1:53.98    |                                            ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
 1:54.01 error[E0425]: cannot find value `DIRBITS` in this scope
 1:54.02   --> /home/root/luvkhush/firefox/third_party/rust/nix/src/sys/ioctl/linux.rs:68:43
 1:54.02    |
 1:54.02 13 | pub const NRBITS: ioctl_num_type = 8;
 1:54.03    | ------------------------------------- similarly named constant `NRBITS` defined here
 1:54.03 ...
 1:54.04 68 | pub const DIRMASK: ioctl_num_type = (1 << DIRBITS) - 1;
 1:54.04    |                                           ^^^^^^^ help: a constant with a similar name exists: `NRBITS`
 2:11.58 dom/console
 2:13.73 Some errors have detailed explanations: E0425, E0432.
 2:13.73 For more information about an error, try `rustc --explain E0425`.
 2:13.81 error: could not compile `nix` due to 4 previous errors

Can anyone help me in this, I want to build nix v0.15.0 on riscv64 platform.

T&R
luvkhush

[Alan Somers]

0.15.0? That's very old. Nix didn't have any riscv support at that point. It still isn't an officially supported platform. I'm afraid you're going to have to update.

[Alan Somers]

Closing this issue, because I don't think there's anything we can do here. The OP will have to update .