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rustup component remove component-NOT-TOOLCHAIN-TARGET errors #3166

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@kadiwa4

Problem you are trying to solve

I ran rustup component list --installed and saw that I had the component rust-std-wasm32-unknown-unknown installed, which I wanted to delete. I thought that I could simply copy-paste the component name into the remove command like this:

rustup component remove rust-std-wasm32-unknown-unknown

However, this doesn't work with remove. I got the following unhelpful error message:

error: toolchain 'nightly-x86_64-apple-darwin' does not contain component 'rust-std-wasm32-unknown-unknown' for target 'x86_64-apple-darwin'
note: not all platforms have the standard library pre-compiled: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html
help: consider using `cargo build -Z build-std` instead

(Also the last line doesn't make sense because I'm trying to uninstall something here, not install it.)

Solution you'd like

The command that actually works is:

rustup component remove --target wasm32-unknown-unknown rust-std

I would like it if rustup told me that. You could assume that the component names which are output by list can also be passed back into rustup as a component name.

Notes

Version 1.25.1

Activity

  1. rbtcollins commented on Feb 22, 2023

    @rbtcollins
    Contributor

    hmm so I totally agree with the motivation here; a path to fixing it would be to parse the target from the output, and infer target when not supplied.

  2. changed the title [-]`rustup components` should hint towards using `--target`[/-] [+]rustup component remove component-NOT-NATIVE-TARGET errors[/+] on Feb 22, 2023
  3. changed the title [-]rustup component remove component-NOT-NATIVE-TARGET errors[/-] [+]rustup component remove component-NOT-TOOLCHAIN-TARGET errors[/+] on Feb 22, 2023
  4. SummerGram commented on Mar 1, 2023

    @SummerGram

    Is there a rule to infer the target from the list?

    @rustbot claim

  5. SummerGram commented on Mar 2, 2023

    @SummerGram

    @rbtcollins ,

    In the component remove function, it is supposed to handle rust-docs-x86_64-apple-darwin this case with function called Component::new_with_target. But in that function, it fails to identify the target from rust-docs-x86_64-apple-darwin and rust-std-wasm32-unknown-unknown.

  6. SummerGram commented on Mar 2, 2023

    @SummerGram

    home/bin/rustup component remove clippy rustfmt-x86_64-apple-darwin rust-docs-x86_64-apple-darwin rust-std-wasm32-unknown-unknown

    Component { pkg: "clippy", target: Some(TargetTriple("x86_64-apple-darwin")), is_extension: true }
    "rustfmt" "x86_64-apple-darwin"
    "rustfmt" "x86_64-apple-darwin" PartialTargetTriple { arch: Some("x86_64"), os: Some("apple-darwin"), env: None }
    "rustfmt-x86_64" "apple-darwin"
    "rustfmt-x86_64" "apple-darwin" PartialTargetTriple { arch: None, os: Some("apple-darwin"), env: None }
    "rustfmt-x86_64-apple" "darwin"
    Component { pkg: "rustfmt-x86_64-apple-darwin", target: Some(TargetTriple("x86_64-apple-darwin")), is_extension: true }
    "rust" "docs-x86_64-apple-darwin"
    "rust-docs" "x86_64-apple-darwin"
    "rust-docs" "x86_64-apple-darwin" PartialTargetTriple { arch: Some("x86_64"), os: Some("apple-darwin"), env: None }
    "rust-docs-x86_64" "apple-darwin"
    "rust-docs-x86_64" "apple-darwin" PartialTargetTriple { arch: None, os: Some("apple-darwin"), env: None }
    "rust-docs-x86_64-apple" "darwin"
    Component { pkg: "rust-docs-x86_64-apple-darwin", target: Some(TargetTriple("x86_64-apple-darwin")), is_extension: true }
    "rust" "std-wasm32-unknown-unknown"
    "rust-std" "wasm32-unknown-unknown"
    "rust-std-wasm32" "unknown-unknown"
    "rust-std-wasm32-unknown" "unknown"
    Component { pkg: "rust-std-wasm32-unknown-unknown", target: Some(TargetTriple("x86_64-apple-darwin")), is_extension: true }
    
  7. added this to the 1.28.0 milestone on Mar 18, 2024
  8. cyqsimon commented on Apr 8, 2024

    @cyqsimon
    Contributor

    Ran into the same thing; was very confused.

  9. modified the milestones: 1.28.0, 1.27.1 on Apr 24, 2024
  10. rami3l commented on Apr 28, 2024

    @rami3l
    Member

    @kadiwa4 @cyqsimon A new beta release is available, would you mind trying it out?

  11. cyqsimon commented on Apr 28, 2024

    @cyqsimon
    Contributor

    @kadiwa4 @cyqsimon A new beta release is available, would you mind trying it out?

    All works as expected now as far as I can tell. Thank you for the great work!

  12. chaoticlonghair commented on Aug 13, 2024

    @chaoticlonghair

    I saw the fix of this issue was added into milestone 1.27.1.
    But I still met this bug with rustup 1.27.1.

    Execute:

    rustup component remove llvm-tools-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
    

    Output:

    error: toolchain 'stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' does not contain component 'llvm-tools-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' for target 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
    

    But the following command works well:

    rustup component remove --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu llvm-tools
    
  13. rami3l commented on Aug 14, 2024

    @rami3l
    Member

    I saw the fix of this issue was added into milestone 1.27.1. But I still met this bug with rustup 1.27.1.

    Execute:

    rustup component remove llvm-tools-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
    

    Output:

    error: toolchain 'stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' does not contain component 'llvm-tools-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' for target 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
    

    But the following command works well:

    rustup component remove --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu llvm-tools
    

    @yangby-cryptape Your case is a bit particular since it's related to a renamed component (#3578). For the moment being, llvm-tools-preview-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu seems to work.

    I'll try to investigate further.

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