{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5338","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/cargo","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5338/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5338/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5338/events","html_url":"https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5338","id":313092557,"number":5338,"title":"Building cargo from source, without cargo","user":{"login":"jjbandit","id":6423361,"avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/6423361?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jjbandit","html_url":"https://github.com/jjbandit","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jjbandit/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jjbandit/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jjbandit/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jjbandit/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jjbandit/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jjbandit/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jjbandit/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jjbandit/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jjbandit/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2018-04-10T21:17:27Z","updated_at":"2018-04-10T22:05:18Z","closed_at":"2018-04-10T21:58:41Z","author_association":"NONE","body":"I'm trying to bootstrap the Rust toolchain from source, but it appears that cargo is required to recompile cargo from source.\r\n\r\nIs it expected that a user installs a pre-built version of cargo to bootstrap, or is there an undocumented path to doing this?\r\n\r\nAsking because I could not find an issue related to or answering this question."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/cargo/issues/comments/380262625","html_url":"https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5338#issuecomment-380262625","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5338","id":380262625,"user":{"login":"alexcrichton","id":64996,"avatar_url":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/64996?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexcrichton","html_url":"https://github.com/alexcrichton","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexcrichton/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexcrichton/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexcrichton/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexcrichton/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexcrichton/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexcrichton/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexcrichton/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexcrichton/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alexcrichton/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-04-10T22:05:18Z","updated_at":"2018-04-10T22:05:18Z","author_association":"OWNER","body":"Right now Cargo's distribution is tied to rustc's distribution, and we don't have a statically linked rustc so there's no statically linked Cargo. You can compile a statically linked Cargo locally, however, via `cargo build --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl`"}}
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