I found a way to pass various linker flags to Rust through the .cargo/config file which is doable for now. However, in man pages it says that ld looks in /etc/ld.so.conf for paths.. This seem broken. While a solution, having to write wrappers sounds like a workaround that shouldn't be needed... On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Dimitry Andric <dim_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > On 22 Jan 2017, at 21:29, Johannes Lundberg <johalun0_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > > > How can I make 'cc' (/usr/bin/ld) look for libraries in /usr/local/lib > > without having to specify environment or command line variables? > > > > I got "/usr/local/lib" in /etc/ld.so.conf and /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints. > > > > /sbin/ldconfig -l xxx can find library xxx in /usr/local/lib > > > > /usr/bin/ld can not. > > > > This is a problem when building Rust crates with Cargo which does not > care > > about env variables like LDFLAGS. I can however override the linker and > use > > 'gcc' which solves the problem but I assume it should be possible to get > > clang (cc) to look in /usr/local/lib as well. > > > > Anyone got any ideas? > > Create a wrapper script that adds -L/usr/local/lib to the link command > line, and invokes the 'real' cc or ld. Then either let Rust call the > wrappers, or put them in a directory that is in front of your PATH. > > -Dimitry > >Received on Sun Jan 22 2017 - 19:57:20 UTC
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