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diff --git a/book/src/development/adding_lints.md b/book/src/development/adding_lints.md index f57dc627dce..0f5ee7103de 100644 --- a/book/src/development/adding_lints.md +++ b/book/src/development/adding_lints.md @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ because that's clearly a non-descriptive name. - [Cargo lints](#cargo-lints) - [Rustfix tests](#rustfix-tests) - [Testing manually](#testing-manually) + - [Running directly](#running-directly) - [Lint declaration](#lint-declaration) - [Lint registration](#lint-registration) - [Lint passes](#lint-passes) @@ -186,6 +187,15 @@ cargo dev lint input.rs from the working copy root. With tests in place, let's have a look at implementing our lint now. +## Running directly + +While it's easier to just use `cargo dev lint`, it might be desirable to get +`target/release/cargo-clippy` and `target/release/clippy-driver` to work as well in some cases. +By default, they don't work because clippy dynamically links rustc. To help them find rustc, +add the path printed by`rustc --print target-libdir` (ran inside this workspace so that the rustc version matches) +to your library search path. +On linux, this can be done by setting the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` environment variable to that path. + ## Lint declaration Let's start by opening the new file created in the `clippy_lints` crate at |