How to clear the Cargo cache?

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bojangle picture bojangle · Aug 1, 2014 · Viewed 15.7k times · Source

When I run cargo build, various libs get stored within the folder /usr/local/lib/rustlib/.

What is the correct way to clear these libs? I could rm these files manually, but would that be the right thing to do? I noticed that /usr/local/lib/rustlib/manifest is a file containing a list of the fill file paths of all the libs, and hence might be breaking something if I remove these files manually.

Answer

huon picture huon · Aug 1, 2014

I believe that manifest file is just for the built-in libraries, i.e. those distributed with rustc. cargo itself stores things in ~/.cargo (for the moment), if you do wish to just remove all the libraries then deleting that directory won't break anything.

If you're just wanting cargo to rebuild/update dependencies you can run cargo update.

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