Unable to use syntax crate on FreeBSD with nightly

[saghm]

When I try to compile a simple program using the syntax crate on FreeBSD, it seems to be unable to find the syntax library:

#![feature(rustc_private)]
extern crate syntax;

fn main() {
}

// error: can't find crate for `syntax`

I first got the error when trying to compile docopt_macros, but from the above test it seems clear that the issue is not in the crate itself.

I'm currently running nightly-2016-04-13 (installed from the newly-avaliable multirust toolchain for FreeBSD). In case it's helpful to know, there does seem to be a libsyntax-[hash].so in ~/.multirust/toolchains/nightly/lib, but I'm not sure how to figure out why I'm unable to use it.

[japaric]

I'm seeing the same on host=armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf (installed via rustup). But I think this is expected because there is no libsyntax.rlib in the .multirust directory.

cc @alexcrichton

[alexcrichton]

Oh man, first off thanks for testing FreeBSD :). Second, thanks for the report!

Third, gah this is a rustbuild bug. It turns out that the rust-std package is actually "all target libraries" in the sense that it's more than just libstd, it's every target library we have available for that platform. Consequently, rustbuild needs to package librustc target libs into the rust-std package if the target is configured as a host.

cc @brson, seems surprising in the sense that "rust-std" is an odd name, but makes sense in terms of "that package contains all libraries for the target we have available".

[hgrecco]

Same problem in a RaspberryPi

pi@raspberrypi:~/demo $ rustup update
info: syncing channel updates for 'nightly-armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf'
info: checking for self-updates
info: rustup is up to date

  nightly-armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf unchanged - rustc 1.10.0-nightly (2174bd97c 2016-04-14)

pi@raspberrypi:~/demo $ cat x.rs
#![feature(rustc_private)]
extern crate syntax;

fn main() {
}
pi@raspberrypi:~/demo $ rustc x.rs
x.rs:2:1: 2:21 error: can't find crate for `syntax` [E0463]
x.rs:2 extern crate syntax;
       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
error: aborting due to previous error

[japaric]

@hgrecco I already mentioned the same problem happens on host=armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf 😄. And there's a fix in #33011.

OT: @hgrecco Is that an RPi 1 or RPi 2? Because you are not supposed to use the armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf target with the RPi 1. I actually expect rustc would crash in that case.

[hgrecco]

@japaric Sorry about that!. I am using RPi 2.

[japaric]

Sorry about that!

It's okay! We got a confirmation of the bug 👍.

I am using RPi 2.

Never mind what I said then. (I was wondering if there was a bug where armv7 toolchain gets installed on the RPi 1. I'm glad that's not the case!)