Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] kbuild: rust: Define probing macros for rustc

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 7:22 PM Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I did miss that in the refresh. To respond to a few points
> before I send up a replacement for this patch:

No problem at all -- thanks!

> I expect this to be potentially used for whether you're *allowed* to
> set `RUST=y` - for example, if a particular sanitizer is enabled, you
> may need to probe whether Rust+LLVM supports that sanitizer before
> allowing RUST to be set to y.

Yeah, makes sense if we do the dependency that way.

> I don't think so - I can't think of a case where we'd want to error on
> a warning from an empty crate (though that may be a failure of
> imagination.) Do you have an example of a warning we might trip that
> we'd want to make the build reject an option's availability?

IIRC back then I was thinking about something like the "unknown target
feature forwarded to backend" one, i.e. to identify whether a target
feature was supported or not. However, that is not a warning even
under `-Dwarning`s (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/91262)
unless something recently changed.

We can add it if/when we need it.

Cheers,
Miguel