Re: [PATCH] gnu: rustc: Add LIBRARY_PATH search path.

[Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>]

Hi Marius,


On 28/01/17 06:21, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> * gnu/packages/rust.scm (rustc)[native-search-pat hs]: New field.
> [...]
>
>> +    (native-search-paths
>> +     (list (search-path-specification
>> +            (variable "LIBRARY_PATH")
>> +            (files '("lib" "lib64")))))
> This seems odd. This search path is for glibc, no?
>
> Is the problem this addresses not already fixed by
> 5d18d776d269ab9a6c44e049936389df3454ba30?

I didn't have any problem compiling and linking pure rust programs - 
that commit fixed that issue, but when trying to link rust programs to 
non-rust libraries such as zlib the linker did not look in the lib of 
the profile (unless gcc was also in the profile, I guess). I was 
specifically looking to include rust-htslib in a crate I am building, to 
be concrete.

Thanks, ben.