Add a note about doctest xcompile. #10132
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Update cargo 6 commits in 7f08ace4f1305de7f3b1b0e2f765911957226bd4..294967c53f0c70d598fc54ca189313c86c576ea7 2021-11-24 17:54:39 +0000 to 2021-11-29 19:04:22 +0000 - Fix some tests with output collisions. (rust-lang/cargo#10137) - Description of the targets that can be applied (rust-lang/cargo#10109) - Improve unused patch message when source URLs mismatched (rust-lang/cargo#10130) - Add a note about doctest xcompile. (rust-lang/cargo#10132) - book: add edit links to specific pages (rust-lang/cargo#10124) - Add crate type flag to rustc command (rust-lang/cargo#10093)
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This stabilizes the doctest-xcompile feature by unconditionally enabling it. Closes #7040 Closes #12118 ## What is being stabilized? This changes it so that cargo will run doctests when using the `--target` flag for a target that is not the host. Previously, cargo would ignore doctests (and show a note if passing `--verbose`). A wrapper for running the doctest can be specified with the [`target.*.runner`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#targettriplerunner) configuration option (which is powered by the `--test-runtool` rustdoc flag). This would typically be something like qemu to run under emulation. It is my understanding that this should work just like running other kinds of tests. Additionally, the [`target.*.linker`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#targettriplelinker) config option is honored for using a custom linker. Already stabilized in rustdoc is the ability to [ignore tests per-target](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustdoc/write-documentation/documentation-tests.html#ignoring-targets). ## Motivation The lack of doctest cross-compile support has always been simply due to the lack of functionality in rustdoc to support this. Rustdoc gained the ability to cross-compile doctests some time ago, but there were additional flags like the test runner that were not stabilized until just recently. This is intended to ensure that projects have full test coverage even when doing cross-compilation. It can be [surprising](#12118) to some that this was not happening, particularly since cargo is silent about it. ## Risks The cargo team had several conversations about how to roll out this feature. Ultimately we decided to enable it unconditionally with the understanding that most projects will probably want to have their doctests covered, and that any breakage will be a local concern that can be resolved by either fixing the test or ignoring the target. Tests in rust-lang/rust run into this issue, [particularly on android](rust-lang/rust#119147 (comment)), and those will need to be fixed before this reaches beta. This is something I am looking into. Some cross-compiling scenarios may need codegen flags that are not supported. It's not clear how common this will be, or if ignoring will be a solution, or how difficult it would be to update rustdoc and cargo to support these. Additionally, the split between RUSTFLAGS and RUSTDOCFLAGS can be cumbersome. ## Implementation history - rust-lang/rust#60387 -- Support added to rustdoc to support the `--target` flag and runtool and per-target-ignores. - #6892 -- Initial support in cargo. - #7391 -- Added unstable documentation. - #8094 -- Fix target for doc test cross compilation - #8358 -- Fixed regression with `--target=HOST` not working on stable. - #10132 -- Added note about doctests not running (under `--verbose`). - rust-lang/rust#112751 -- Fixed `--test-run-directory` interaction with `--test-runtool`. - rust-lang/rust#137096 -- Stabilization (and rename) of the rustdoc `--test-runtool` and `--test-runtool-arg` CLI args, and drops `--enable-per-target-ignores` unconditionally enabling it. ## Test coverage Cargo tests: - [artifact_dep::cross_doctests_works_with_artifacts](https://github.com/ehuss/cargo/blob/56c08f84e28d3653ae0c842f331a226738108188/tests/testsuite/artifact_dep.rs#L1248-L1326) -- Checks that doctest has access to the artifact dependencies. - [build_script::duplicate_script_with_extra_env](https://github.com/ehuss/cargo/blob/56c08f84e28d3653ae0c842f331a226738108188/tests/testsuite/build_script.rs#L5514-L5614) -- Checks that build-script env and cfg values are correctly handled on host versus target when cross running doctests. - [cross_compile::cross_tests](https://github.com/ehuss/cargo/blob/56c08f84e28d3653ae0c842f331a226738108188/tests/testsuite/cross_compile.rs#L416-L502) -- Basic test that cross-compiled tests work. - [cross_compile::doctest_xcompile_linker](https://github.com/ehuss/cargo/blob/56c08f84e28d3653ae0c842f331a226738108188/tests/testsuite/cross_compile.rs#L1139-L1182) -- Checks that the linker config argument works. - [custom_target::custom_target_minimal](https://github.com/ehuss/cargo/blob/56c08f84e28d3653ae0c842f331a226738108188/tests/testsuite/custom_target.rs#L39-L71) -- Checks that `.json` targets work with rustdoc cross tests. - [test::cargo_test_doctest_xcompile_ignores](https://github.com/ehuss/cargo/blob/56c08f84e28d3653ae0c842f331a226738108188/tests/testsuite/test.rs#L4743-L4777) -- Checks the `ignore-*` syntax works. - [test::cargo_test_doctest_xcompile_runner](https://github.com/ehuss/cargo/blob/2603268cda3e32565ac27ee642f2b755fa590bac/tests/testsuite/test.rs#L4783-L4863) -- Checks runner with cross doctests. - [test::cargo_test_doctest_xcompile_no_runner](https://github.com/ehuss/cargo/blob/2603268cda3e32565ac27ee642f2b755fa590bac/tests/testsuite/test.rs#L4869-L4907) -- Checks cross doctests without a runner. Rustdoc tests: - [run-make/doctest-runtool](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/25cdf1f67463c9365d8d83778c933ec7480e940b/tests/run-make/doctests-runtool) -- Tests behavior of `--test-run-directory` with relative paths of the runner. - [rustdoc/doctest/doctest-runtool](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/25cdf1f67463c9365d8d83778c933ec7480e940b/tests/rustdoc/doctest/doctest-runtool.rs) -- Tests for `--test-runtool` and `--test-runtool-arg`. ## Future concerns There have been some discussions (rust-lang/testing-devex-team#5) about changing how doctests are driven. My understanding is that stabilizing this should not affect those plans, since if cargo becomes the driver, it will simply need to build things with `--target` and use the appropriate runner. ## Change notes This PR changed tests a little: - artifact_dep::no_cross_doctests_works_with_artifacts was changed now that doctests actually work. - cross_compile::cross_tests was changed to properly check doctests. - cross_compile::no_cross_doctests dropped since it is no longer relevant. - standard_lib::doctest didn't need `-Zdoctest-xcompile` since `-Zbuild-std` no longer uses a target. - test::cargo_test_doctest_xcompile was removed since it is a duplicate of cross_compile::cross_tests I think this should probably wait until the next release cutoff, moving this to 1.89 (will update the PR accordingly if that happens).
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This adds a note when running with
--verboseif doctests are being skipped because they do not support cross-compiling.I decided to use verbose instead of always displaying it because I felt it could get really noisy. However, I'm a bit on the fence. I'm kinda curious what is blocking doctest-xcompile from being stabilized?