From 5332d9a8e8a66e22b8c81f3f302ce72734ba137f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Segev Finer <segev208@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 18:33:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document why we download rust-mingw

---
 src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py b/src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py
index 761cc94c8c66..5d297570bc12 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py
+++ b/src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py
@@ -351,6 +351,9 @@ class RustBuild(object):
             with open(self.rustc_stamp(), 'w') as rust_stamp:
                 rust_stamp.write(self.date)
 
+            # This is required so that we don't mix incompatible MinGW
+            # libraries/binaries that are included in rust-std with
+            # the system MinGW ones.
             if "pc-windows-gnu" in self.build:
                 filename = "rust-mingw-{}-{}.tar.gz".format(
                     rustc_channel, self.build)