rustpkg doesn't find libraries with missing sources

[wycats]

I compiled an .so from source and put it into my lib directory, but rustpkg build didn't find it.

Please let me know if I can provide more details.

[catamorphism]

To provide a little more detail, the code is:

extern mod protobuf;

pub fn main() {
world()
}

pub fn world() {
println("Hello, world")
}

Even if the compiled library protobuf is in a lib/ directory inside a workspace that's in the RUST_PATH, rustpkg won't find it, because it looks for sources first.

[z0w0]

@catamorphism any hints of the best place for it to check if a compiled library exists and handle appropiately? I was thinking path_util::workspace_contains_package_id but I'm not sure if a compiled library is exactly equivalent to a library package. It's been a while since I've been near rustpkg so I'm a bit lost..

[jakerr]

rustpkg also fails to find the library native for this code:

extern mod native;

#[start]
fn start(argc: int, argv: **u8) -> int {
    do native::start(argc, argv) {
        main();
    }
}

pub fn main() {
    println("Hello, world")
}

giving the error:

error: Package hello depends on native, but I don't know how to find it

Maybe for the same reason, or is this a separate bug?

[jhasse]

@jakerr Separate bug: #11330

[alexcrichton]

rustpkg has been removed, closing