Rust

Background Today, I resumed a rust project of mine after a long time. In order to check my last working code, I ran cargo run. But it refused to run with error message: ...."-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-l" "dl" "-l" "rt" "-l" "pthread" "-l" "pthread" "-l" "gcc_s" "-l" "c" "-l" "m" "-l" "rt" "-l" "pthread" "-l" "util" "-l" "util" = note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find Scrt1.o: No such file or directory collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Linker Issues! ld is used to link libraries. So, the error was not in the code but in the linking phase. I googled the error and the solution was to have build-essential package installed. But the package was already installed on my machine (it is one of the first packages I install on any development machine). Some more googling revealed that cargo uses the system cc linker to link to the C runtime. Running which cc gave me $HOME/anaconda3/bin/cc. This cc is part of my Anaconda root environment. (Anaconda is a package manager for scientific computing packages. It is a convenient way for installing multiple versions of packages in different environments). ...