Make the default stage for x.py configurable
This also allows configuring each sub-command individually.
Possibly #76617 should land before this? I don't feel strongly either way, I don't mind waiting.
Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/76165.
r? `@Mark-Simulacrum`
This allows configuring the default stage for each sub-command individually.
- Normalize the stage as early as possible, so there's no confusion
about which to use.
- Don't add an explicit `stage` option in config.toml
This offers no more flexibility than `*_stage` and makes it confusing
which takes precedence.
- Always give `--stage N` precedence over config.toml
- Fix bootstrap tests
This changes the tests to go through `Config::parse` so that they test
the actual defaults, not the dummy ones provided by `default_opts`. To
make this workable (and independent of the environment), it does not
read `config.toml` for tests.
Add a dedicated debug-logging option to config.toml
`@Mark-Simulacrum` and I were talking in zulip and we found that turning on debug/trace logging in rustc is fairly confusing, as it effectively depends on debug-assertions and is not documented as such. `@Mark-Simulacrum` mentioned that we should probably have a separate option for logging anyways.
this diff adds that, having the option follow debug-assertions (so everyone's existing config.toml should be fine) and if the option is false
to test I ran ./x.py test <something> twice, once with `debug-logging = false` and once with `debug-logging = true` and made sure i only saw trace's when it was true
Previously, the CLI --target/--host definitions and configured options differed
in their effect: when setting these on the CLI, only the passed triples would be
compiled for, while in config.toml we would also compile for the build triple
and any host triples. This is needlessly confusing; users expect --target and
--host to be identical to editing the configuration file.
The new behavior is to respect --host and --target when passed as the *only*
configured triples (no triples are implicitly added). The default for --host is
the build triple, and the default for --target is the host triple(s), either
configured or the default build triple.
rustbuild: Build tests with LLD if `use-lld = true` was passed
Addresses https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/76127#discussion_r479932392.
Our test suite is generally ready to run with an explicitly specified linker (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/45191),
so LLD specified with `use-lld = true` works as well.
Only 4 tests fail (on `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`):
```
ui/panic-runtime/lto-unwind.rs
run-make-fulldeps/debug-assertions
run-make-fulldeps/foreign-exceptions
run-make-fulldeps/test-harness
```
All of them are legitimate issues with LLD (or at least with combination Rust+LLD) and manifest in segfaults on access to TLS (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/76127#issuecomment-683473325). UPD: These issues are caused by https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/72145 and appear because I had `-Ctarget-cpu=native` set.
UPD: Further commits build tests with LLD for non-MSVC targets and propagate LLD to more places when `use-lld` is enabled.
Move `rustllvm` into `compiler/rustc_llvm`
The `rustllvm` directory is not self-contained, it contains C++ code built by a build script of the `rustc_llvm` crate which is then linked into that crate.
So it makes sense to make `rustllvm` a part of `rustc_llvm` and move it into its directory.
I replaced `rustllvm` with more obvious `llvm-wrapper` as the subdirectory name, but something like `llvm-adapter` would work as well, other suggestions are welcome.
To make things more confusing, the Rust side of FFI functions defined in `rustllvm` can be found in `rustc_codegen_llvm` rather than in `rustc_llvm`. Perhaps they need to be moved as well, but this PR doesn't do that.
The presence of multiple LLVM-related directories in `src` (`llvm-project`, `rustllvm`, `librustc_llvm`, `librustc_codegen_llvm` and their predecessors) historically confused me and made me wonder about their purpose.
With this PR we will have LLVM itself (`llvm-project`), a FFI crate (`rustc_llvm`, kind of `llvm-sys`) and a codegen backend crate using LLVM through the FFI crate (`rustc_codegen_llvm`).
- Use prettier syntax for codegen-units defaults
- Remove comment about parallelism that only made sense for specific
values of codegen-units
- Be more specific about what `verbose-tests` does
Ninja substantially improves LLVM build time. On a 96-way system, using
Make took 248s, and using Ninja took 161s, a 35% improvement.
We already require a variety of tools to build Rust. If someone wants to
build without Ninja (for instance, to minimize the set of packages
required to bootstrap a new target), they can easily set `ninja=false`
in `config.toml`. Our defaults should help people build Rust (and LLVM)
faster, to speed up development.
Improve defaults in x.py
- Make the default stage dependent on the subcommand
- Don't build stage1 rustc artifacts with x.py build --stage 1. If this is what you want, use x.py build --stage 2 instead, which gives you a working libstd.
- Change default debuginfo when debug = true from 2 to 1
I tried to fix CI to use `--stage 2` everywhere it currently has no stage, but I might have missed a spot.
This does not update much of the documentation - most of it is in https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide/ or https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-forge and will need a separate PR.
See individual commits for a detailed rationale of each change.
See also the MCP: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/326
r? @Mark-Simulacrum , but anyone is free to give an opinion.
From [a conversation in discord](https://discordapp.com/channels/442252698964721669/443151243398086667/719200989269327882):
> Linking seems to consume all available RAM, leading to the OS to swap memory to disk and slowing down everything in the process
Compiling itself doesn't seem to take up as much RAM, and I'm only looking to check whether a minimal testcase can be compiled by rustc, where the runtime performance isn't much of an issue
> do you have debug = true or debuginfo-level = 2 in config.toml?
> if so I think that results in over 2GB of debuginfo nowadays and is likely the culprit
> which might mean we're giving out bad advice :(
Anecdotally, this sped up my stage 1 build from 15 to 10 minutes.
This still adds line numbers, it only removes variable and type information.
- Improve wording for debuginfo description
Co-authored-by: Teymour Aldridge <42674621+teymour-aldridge@users.noreply.github.com>
bootstrap: Configurable musl libdir
Make it possible to customize the location of musl libdir using
musl-libdir in config.toml, e.g., to use lib64 instead of lib.
If config.toml `profiler = false`, the test/mir-opt/instrument_coverage
test is ignored. Otherwise, this patch ensures the profiler_runtime is
loaded when -Zinstrument-coverage is enabled. Confirmed that this works
for MacOS.
Provide separate option for std debug asserts
On local one-off benchmarking of libcore metadata-only, debug asserts in std are a significant hit (15s to 20s). Provide an option for compiler developers to disable them. A build with a nightly compiler is around 10s, for reference.
This allows configuring the directory for build artifacts, instead of having it always be ./build. This means you can set it to a constant location, letting you reuse the same cache while working in several different directories.
The configuration lives in config.toml under build.build-dir. By default, it keeps the existing default of ./build, but it can be configured to any relative or absolute path. Additionally, it allows making outputs relative to the root of the git repository using $ROOT.
Make LLVM version suffix independent of rustc version on dev channel
Remove rustc version from LLVM version suffix on dev channel,
avoiding the need for full rebuilds when switching between
branches with different LLVM submodule & rustc version.
Note: To avoid full rebuild, on subsequent LLVM submodule update, copy the
current value of `LLVM_VERSION_SUFFIX` from `build/*/llvm/build/CMakeCache.txt`,
to `version-suffix` in `config.toml`.
Remove rustc version from LLVM version suffix on dev channel, avoiding
the need for full rebuilds when moving between commits with different
LLVM submodule & rustc version.
Enable Control Flow Guard in rustbuild
Now that Rust supports Control Flow Guard (#68180), add a config.toml option to build the standard library with CFG enabled.
r? @nagisa
