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0 pointsdrewg1237y ago0 comments

FWIW, I built and successfully ran it on FreeBSD-current. The only hiccup I ran into was that it puked building due to not having /usr/local/lib in its lib search path & not being able to find libxcb. I had to manually add -L/usr/local/lib to the cc args and manually link it. Not sure if that is a FreeBSD issue w/Rust, or something in your package.

At any rate, the tool works! Thanks so much.

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timvisee7y ago

Thanks for sharing your solution! Not sure what is causing it (maybe it's OpenSSL binding related), and am currently not really targeting FreeBSD yet.

I wasn't fully ready with this tool for the Firefox Send release to be honest, would have loved to be able to provide better binaries and packages for more platforms, which are a work in progress.

If you believe you can improve the README with your solution, be sure to submit a [PR](https://gitlab.com/timvisee/ffsend/).

Happy to see it's working! :)

alxlaz7y ago

It's a BSD world thing :). Local (i.e. non-system) executables and libraries go under /usr/local around here (i.e. libraries under /usr/local/lib, binaries under /usr/local/bin and so on, the hierarchy under /usr/local has the same structure as that under /usr).

drewg123OP7y ago

You can work around it by creating a cargo config with a wrapper. Eg:

cat ~/.cargo/config

  [target.x86_64-unknown-freebsd]
  linker = "/home/drewg123/bin/cargo-ld"

Where cargo-ld is just a wrapper:

  #!/bin/sh
  exec /usr/bin/ld -L/usr/local/lib $*

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notamy7y ago

> the hierarchy under /usr/local has the same structure as that under /usr

So I can have /usr/local/local/local/local...? :)

inopinatus7y ago

Is there an autotools equivalent in Rust land?

steveklabnik7y ago

Depends on what you mean exactly.

Datenstrom7y ago

I just had the same issue with rust linking to a 1553 bus library in /usr/local/lib yesterday. Seems like this should be on the search path.

IcePic7y ago

At least on BSD, you want to be able to separate external 3rd party libs and system libs in case they overlap, so that is why BSDs don't automatically include things under /usr/local.

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