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What was broken

On a Mac with Homebrew rust installed, make app-release failed at make app-vcs before building anything else:

error[E0463]: can't find crate for `core`
  = note: the `x86_64-apple-darwin` target may not be installed

The target was installed in rustup's stable toolchain. The cause:

• build-apple.sh --universal runs rustup run stable cargo build --target x86_64-apple-darwin.
• rustup run stable selects stable's cargo, but cargo takes rustc from PATH.
• Makefile:7 exports PATH := /opt/homebrew/bin:…, so that rustc is Homebrew's, which ships only the host (arm64) std.

Verified directly: PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH rustup run stable sh -c 'which rustc' prints /opt/homebrew/bin/rustc (Homebrew 1.98.1).

CI never hit this because its runners have no Homebrew rust. Found while running make app-release locally to check notarization for #233.

The fix

Before the universal builds, build-apple.sh pins RUSTC to rustup stable's own compiler (rustup which --toolchain stable rustc). macapp/Scripts/build-agent.sh already does the same for the agent. The input-hash comment that named this gap is updated to match.

Review follow-up: the freshness hash

Greptile and CodeRabbit both caught that input_hash() recorded only the PATH rustc, so an update to rustup stable alone would leave a stale core looking fresh. 29f4108 hashes rustup run stable rustc --version too, for every flavour: --check and CI's --print-input-hash never pass --universal, and a flavour-dependent hash would fail the Xcode gate after every make app-release (the trap the script already documents). With a fake rustup shim that reports a different stable version, the hash moves.

Validation

• Before: make app-release on master failed twice at make app-vcs with the error above. A PATH change could not work around it, because the Makefile prepends Homebrew again.
• After: WR_VCS_FORCE=1 make app-vcs VCS_APPLE_FLAGS=--universal on this branch, with no RUSTC in the environment, builds all three slices, and lipo -archs on the result reports x86_64 arm64.
• shellcheck reports no new warnings.
• PR CI does not run the universal branch. Only the release and nightly workflows do, and there rustup's stable is the only toolchain, so pinning it changes nothing.

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  • Universal Apple builds now use the stable Rust compiler provided by rustup; host builds are unchanged. No end-user features or application behavior changed.

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The Apple build script now includes rustup stable rustc’s version in the input hash for every build flavour. Universal builds export that compiler’s path before cross-compilation. The host build path is unchanged.

Changes

Apple universal build

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Select stable rustc for universal builds vcs/scripts/build-apple.sh	The input hash includes rustup stable rustc’s version, with a fallback if the version command fails. Universal builds export the stable compiler path before cross-compilation.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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Summary

The PR pins rustup stable’s compiler for universal VCS builds and adds a stable-version probe to the input hash.

• The compiler pin addresses the Homebrew cross-compilation failure.
• The hash concern was already raised in a previous thread; no distinct new finding is reported.

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