Simplify doc meta mode by notriddle · Pull Request #159473 · rust-lang/rust

notriddle · 2026-07-17T22:35:07Z

Get rid of the mode where you can finalize the CCI and generate more docs at the same time. It isn't used in Cargo, and probably won't be used elsewhere?

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notriddle · 2026-07-17T22:36:25Z

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Since we're getting rid of the ability to do finalize and document at the same time, we can't actually do this in the rustdoc-html test build system and need to do it this way instead.

Co-authored-by: Noah Lev <37223377+camelid@users.noreply.github.com>

rustbot · 2026-07-26T02:19:44Z

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Looks good overall, but I'd like to avoid the dummy crate and TyCtxt, and some of the tests seem to be translated wrong from the original files.

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camelid · 2026-07-27T17:56:50Z

+            let config = core::create_config(
+                Input::Str {
+                    name: rustc_span::FileName::Custom(String::new()),
+                    input: String::new(),
+                },
+                options,
+                &render_options,
+            );
            return wrap_return(
                dcx,
-                rustc_span::create_session_globals_then(options.edition, &[], None, || {
-                    run_merge_finalize(render_options)
+                interface::run_compiler(config, |compiler| {
+                    run_merge_finalize(render_options, compiler)


Ditto here, but getting rid of the fake Input::Str is harder, and this seems less bad than making a fake crate and TyCtxt. So fine to just leave it.

rustbot · 2026-07-27T18:22:36Z

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weihanglo · 2026-07-29T04:36:19Z

-If this parameter is supplied but `--read-doc-meta-dir` isn't, it runs in *intermediate mode*:
-some pages may be written to the output dir, but there is a lot of functionality that won't work
-until rustdoc is run in *finalize mode*.
+When `--write-doc-meta-dir` is supplied, rustdoc will write the crate's shared metadata to


Probably not the right question for this PR, and I haven't read the implementation here, though I am curious:

How does this interact with --out-dir. I guess --out-dir is ignored here?

How does this interact with all those --emit files (w/ or w/o --out-dir? Where will those files be emitted?

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Context: I'd like to pass --emit=dep-info without specifying the full (absolute) path for those dep-info files. Because of this issue #159743 we cannot specify full path, and currently blocks rust-lang/cargo#17020.

(That said, it is a very Cargo specific issue I feel like)

The --out-dir is still used as the path for --emit files. --write-doc-meta-dir doesn't pay attention to --out-dir.

I see. So eventually if individual rustdoc doesn't need to emit html contents, cargo then can use --emit to control dep-info emission location exclusively. Thanks!

camelid · 2026-07-29T18:31:07Z

We're also missing the root-level help.html and settings.html files in the finalize step.

notriddle · 2026-07-30T03:15:18Z

Good catch! settings.html and help.html are moved, so they get generated at finalize now.

camelid

Thanks! r=me with comments addressed. Or feel free to just merge and then fix in a later PR since this is already a big improvement.

Also, could you rename the title and edit the PR description since the scope has changed and grown a bit?

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camelid · 2026-07-31T21:07:45Z

Have we specified the behavior of rustdoc when two different invocations use the same --write-doc-meta-dir folder?

notriddle · 2026-08-01T04:42:50Z

Have we specified the behavior of rustdoc when two different invocations use the same --write-doc-meta-dir folder?

Good point. I've added a mention of this to the unstable book.

camelid · 2026-08-02T02:16:15Z

Good point. I've added a mention of this to the unstable book.

I asked mostly because I wonder if we should forbid/not support this use case. Otherwise we need to support reading multiple crates' metadata from a single flag's metadata directory. It might force us into adding extra structure to our metadata directories to make sure that different crates' entries don't clash.

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Stabilize rustdoc --merge --parts-out-dir, and --include-parts-dir options #152902

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rustdoc: fix --enable-index-page with finalize

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rustdoc: move CCI tests to run-make

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Since we're getting rid of the ability to do finalize and document at the same time, we can't actually do this in the rustdoc-html test build system and need to do it this way instead.

rustdoc: write rmake scripts to test CCI

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Document the changed doc meta features

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Update src/doc/rustdoc/src/unstable-features.md

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Co-authored-by: Noah Lev <37223377+camelid@users.noreply.github.com>

Update src/doc/rustdoc/src/unstable-features.md

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rustdoc: clean up unused @ build diectives

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rustdoc: no --read-doc-meta-dir and --write-doc-meta-dir at once

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rustdoc: move CCI run-make tests into the directory

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rustdoc: stop constructing an unneeded synth Crate

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rustdoc: remove unused code from rmake tests

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fix: stabilize -Zrustdoc-depinfo rust-lang/cargo#17020

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rustdoc: generate settings and help at finalize

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rustdoc: use fs::write on no-crate-specific HTML

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rustdoc: remove unused root path code

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rustdoc: document you can use one shared meta dir

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