Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] docs: Integrate rustdoc into Rust documentation

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> writes:

>> - It did a bunch of other building, starting with objtool - again, never
>>   needed for the docs build before.
>
> Yeah, rustdoc, like the compiler, requires dependencies to be
> available to understand the code. Thus some things need to be
> compiled, like for the normal build.

Does it really need objtool?

A certain amount of extra building is OK as long as it doesn't radically
slow down the (already glacial) docs build.  I'd like it to not *break*
the docs build if the right dependencies aren't there, though.

>> version is really supported, but it would be nice to fail a bit more
>> gracefully if at all possible.
>
> Do you mean failing in the `scripts/rust_is_available.sh` step instead
> of warning? We could also add versioning information to that script,
> so that it knows more about which versions work etc., but I guess at
> that point it would be best to simply start supporting several
> versions, which may be a bit too early to split CI runs on that since
> it would require some degree of testing.

It seems like that step should fail regardless, not just for the docs
build, no?

Otherwise, though, it would suffice to turn a failure to build the Rust
docs into a warning-level event for the docs build; I'm mostly concerned
about it breaking the build as a whole.  Supporting multiple Rust
versions would be nice, but it's up to you to decide when you think you
can do that; I don't think the docs build should drive it.

Thanks,

jon