Thanks Tim! I appreciate your response. I'll try out your suggestions. Madhu
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:11:36 -0700 > Subject: Re: [rust-dev] rustpkg behavior > From: catamorph...@gmail.com > To: smadhuea...@outlook.com > CC: rust-dev@mozilla.org > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Madhu Srinivasan > <smadhuea...@outlook.com> wrote: > > hi fellow rusters, > > > > I understand that rustpkg is under heavy development and not complete. > > Having said that, I'd like to know if the following error (w.r.t. rustpkg > > finding external crates and linking correctly with them) is within it's > > normal operating parameters :). > > > > The rust code in question: https://github.com/smadhueagle/rustlings > > (It is a series of example rust programs) > > The external crate that it refers to: https://github.com/smadhueagle/rustils > > > > Following the steps in Readme.md on the rustlings repo and building the > > simplespawn crate results in the following error: > > > > kl-13572:rustlings smadhueagle$ rustpkg build simplespawn > > WARNING: The Rust package manager is experimental and may be unstable > > task <unnamed> failed at 'Unhandled condition: nonexistent_package: > > (package_id::PkgId{path: std::path::PosixPath{is_absolute: false, > > components: ~[~"rustils"]}, short_name: ~"rustils", version: NoVersion}, > > ~"supplied path for package dir does not exist, and couldn't interpret it as > > a URL fragment")', /private/tmp/rust-nVcw/src/libstd/condition.rs:43 > > task <unnamed> failed at 'killed by linked failure', > > /private/tmp/rust-nVcw/src/libstd/rt/kill.rs:627 > > Sorry for overlooking this email until now. The issue here is that you > need to either write: > > extern mod rustils = "github.com/smadhueagle/rustils"; > > instead of `extern mod rustils;`, in the code that uses it (and in > this case you don't need the `rustpkg install` step), or set your > RUST_PATH to: > > $TOP/rustlings/.rust/github.com/smadhueagle/rustils-0.1 > > where $TOP is the directory that contains the `rustlings` directory. > > I tested the latter option with rustpkg as built from 7ddcd2, and it worked. > > Feel free to ask again here if you have more questions (and I'll try > to answer them sooner :-) > > Cheers, > Tim > > > > > > -- > Tim Chevalier * http://catamorphism.org/ * Often in error, never in doubt > "Being queer is not about a right to privacy; it is about the freedom > to be public, to just be who we are." -- anonymous, June 1990
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