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bors 0f5c769513 Auto merge of #75756 - jyn514:diagnostic-suggestions, r=estebank
Improve suggestions for broken intra-doc links

~~Depends on #74489 and should not be merged before that PR.~~ Merged 🎉
~~Depends on #75916 and should not be merged before.~~ Merged

Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/75305.

This does a lot of different things 😆.

- Add `PerNS::into_iter()` so I didn't have to keep rewriting hacks around it. Also add `PerNS::iter()` for consistency. Let me know if this should be `impl IntoIterator` instead.
- Make `ResolutionFailure` an enum instead of a unit variant. This was most of the changes: everywhere that said `ErrorKind::ResolutionFailure` now has to say _why_ the link failed to resolve.
- Store the resolution in case of an anchor failure. Previously this was implemented as variants on `AnchorFailure` which was prone to typos and had inconsistent output compared to the rest of the diagnostics.
- Turn some `Err`ors into unwrap() or panic()s, because they're rustdoc bugs and not user error. These have comments as to why they're bugs (in particular this would have caught #76073 as a bug a while ago).
- If an item is not in scope at all, say the first segment in the path that failed to resolve
- If an item exists but not in the current namespaces, say that and suggests linking to that namespace.
- If there is a partial resolution for an item (part of the segments resolved, but not all of them), say the partial resolution and why the following segment didn't resolve.
- Add the `DefId` of associated items to `kind_side_channel` so it can be used for diagnostics (tl;dr of the hack: the rest of rustdoc expects the id of the item, but for diagnostics we need the associated item).
- No longer suggests escaping the brackets for every link that failed to resolve; this was pretty obnoxious. Now it only suggests `\[ \]` if no segment resolved and there is no `::` in the link.
- Add `Suggestion`, which says _what_ to prefix the link with, not just 'prefix with the item kind'.

Places where this is currently buggy:

<details><summary>All outdated</summary>

~~1. When the link has the wrong namespace:~~ Now fixed.

<details>

```rust
/// [type@S::h]
impl S {
	pub fn h() {}
}

/// [type@T::g]
pub trait T {
	fn g() {}
}
```
```
error: unresolved link to `T::g`
  --> /home/joshua/rustc/src/test/rustdoc-ui/intra-link-errors.rs:53:6
   |
53 | /// [type@T::g]
   |      ^^^^^^^^^
   |
   = note: this link partially resolves to the trait `T`,
   = note: `T` has no field, variant, or associated item named `g`

error: unresolved link to `S::h`
  --> /home/joshua/rustc/src/test/rustdoc-ui/intra-link-errors.rs:48:6
   |
48 | /// [type@S::h]
   |      ^^^^^^^^^
   |
   = note: this link partially resolves to the struct `S`,
   = note: `S` has no field, variant, or associated item named `h`
```
Instead it should suggest changing the disambiguator, the way it currently does for macros:
```
error: unresolved link to `S`
  --> /home/joshua/rustc/src/test/rustdoc-ui/intra-link-errors.rs:38:6
   |
38 | /// [S!]
   |      ^^ help: to link to the unit struct, use its disambiguator: `value@S`
   |
   = note: this link resolves to the unit struct `S`, which is not in the macro namespace
```

</details>

2. ~~Associated items for values. It says that the value isn't in scope; instead it should say that values can't have associated items.~~ Fixed.

<details>

```
error: unresolved link to `f::A`
  --> /home/joshua/rustc/src/test/rustdoc-ui/intra-link-errors.rs:14:6
   |
14 | /// [f::A]
   |      ^^^^
   |
   = note: no item named `f` is in scope
   = help: to escape `[` and `]` characters, add '\' before them like `\[` or `\]`
```
This is _mostly_ fixed, it now says

```rust
warning: unresolved link to `f::A`
 --> /home/joshua/test-rustdoc/f.rs:1:6
  |
1 | /// [f::A]
  |      ^^^^
  |
  = note: this link partially resolves to the function `f`
  = note: `f` is a function, not a module
```

'function, not a module' seems awfully terse when what I actually mean is '`::` isn't allowed here', though.

</details>

It looks a lot nicer now, it says

```
error: unresolved link to `f::A`
  --> /home/joshua/rustc/src/test/rustdoc-ui/intra-link-errors.rs:13:6
   |
13 | /// [f::A]
   |      ^^^^
   |
   = note: `f` is a function, not a module or type, and cannot have associated items
```

3. ~~I'm also not very happy with the second note for this error:~~

<details>
```
error: unresolved link to `S::A`
  --> /home/joshua/rustc/src/test/rustdoc-ui/intra-link-errors.rs:19:6
   |
19 | /// [S::A]
   |      ^^^^
   |
   = note: this link partially resolves to the struct `S`,
   = note: `S` has no field, variant, or associated item named `A`
```

but I'm not sure how better to word it.

I ended up going with 'no `A` in `S`' to match `rustc_resolve` but that seems terse as well.

</details>

This now says

```
error: unresolved link to `S::A`
  --> /home/joshua/rustc/src/test/rustdoc-ui/intra-link-errors.rs:17:6
   |
17 | /// [S::A]
   |      ^^^^
   |
   = note: the struct `S` has no field or associated item named `A`
```

which I think looks pretty good :)

4. This is minor, but it would be nice to say that `path` wasn't found instead of the full thing:
```
error: unresolved link to `path::to::nonexistent::module`
 --> /home/joshua/rustc/src/test/rustdoc-ui/intra-link-errors.rs:8:6
  |
8 | /// [path::to::nonexistent::module]
  |      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
```

It will now look at most 3 paths up (so it reports `path::to` as not in scope), but it doesn't work with arbitrarily many paths.

</details>

~~I recommend only reviewing the last few commits - the first 7 are all from #74489.~~ Rebased so that only the relevant commits are shown. Let me know if I should squash the history some more.

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The Rust Programming Language

This is the main source code repository for Rust. It contains the compiler, standard library, and documentation.

Note: this README is for users rather than contributors. If you wish to contribute to the compiler, you should read the Getting Started of the rustc-dev-guide instead of this section.

Quick Start

Read "Installation" from The Book.

Installing from Source

The Rust build system uses a Python script called x.py to build the compiler, which manages the bootstrapping process. More information about it can be found by running ./x.py --help or reading the rustc dev guide.

Building on a Unix-like system

  1. Make sure you have installed the dependencies:

    • g++ 5.1 or later or clang++ 3.5 or later
    • python 3 or 2.7
    • GNU make 3.81 or later
    • cmake 3.4.3 or later
    • ninja
    • curl
    • git
    • ssl which comes in libssl-dev or openssl-devel
    • pkg-config if you are compiling on Linux and targeting Linux
  2. Clone the source with git:

    $ git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.git
    $ cd rust
    
  1. Configure the build settings:

    The Rust build system uses a file named config.toml in the root of the source tree to determine various configuration settings for the build. Copy the default config.toml.example to config.toml to get started.

    $ cp config.toml.example config.toml
    

    If you plan to use x.py install to create an installation, it is recommended that you set the prefix value in the [install] section to a directory.

    Create install directory if you are not installing in default directory

  2. Build and install:

    $ ./x.py build && ./x.py install
    

    When complete, ./x.py install will place several programs into $PREFIX/bin: rustc, the Rust compiler, and rustdoc, the API-documentation tool. This install does not include Cargo, Rust's package manager. To build and install Cargo, you may run ./x.py install cargo or set the build.extended key in config.toml to true to build and install all tools.

Building on Windows

There are two prominent ABIs in use on Windows: the native (MSVC) ABI used by Visual Studio, and the GNU ABI used by the GCC toolchain. Which version of Rust you need depends largely on what C/C++ libraries you want to interoperate with: for interop with software produced by Visual Studio use the MSVC build of Rust; for interop with GNU software built using the MinGW/MSYS2 toolchain use the GNU build.

MinGW

MSYS2 can be used to easily build Rust on Windows:

  1. Grab the latest MSYS2 installer and go through the installer.

  2. Run mingw32_shell.bat or mingw64_shell.bat from wherever you installed MSYS2 (i.e. C:\msys64), depending on whether you want 32-bit or 64-bit Rust. (As of the latest version of MSYS2 you have to run msys2_shell.cmd -mingw32 or msys2_shell.cmd -mingw64 from the command line instead)

  3. From this terminal, install the required tools:

    # Update package mirrors (may be needed if you have a fresh install of MSYS2)
    $ pacman -Sy pacman-mirrors
    
    # Install build tools needed for Rust. If you're building a 32-bit compiler,
    # then replace "x86_64" below with "i686". If you've already got git, python,
    # or CMake installed and in PATH you can remove them from this list. Note
    # that it is important that you do **not** use the 'python2', 'cmake' and 'ninja'
    # packages from the 'msys2' subsystem. The build has historically been known
    # to fail with these packages.
    $ pacman -S git \
                make \
                diffutils \
                tar \
                mingw-w64-x86_64-python \
                mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake \
                mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc \
                mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja
    
  4. Navigate to Rust's source code (or clone it), then build it:

    $ ./x.py build && ./x.py install
    

MSVC

MSVC builds of Rust additionally require an installation of Visual Studio 2017 (or later) so rustc can use its linker. The simplest way is to get the Visual Studio, check the “C++ build tools” and “Windows 10 SDK” workload.

(If you're installing cmake yourself, be careful that “C++ CMake tools for Windows” doesn't get included under “Individual components”.)

With these dependencies installed, you can build the compiler in a cmd.exe shell with:

> python x.py build

Currently, building Rust only works with some known versions of Visual Studio. If you have a more recent version installed and the build system doesn't understand, you may need to force rustbuild to use an older version. This can be done by manually calling the appropriate vcvars file before running the bootstrap.

> CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"
> python x.py build

Specifying an ABI

Each specific ABI can also be used from either environment (for example, using the GNU ABI in PowerShell) by using an explicit build triple. The available Windows build triples are:

  • GNU ABI (using GCC)
    • i686-pc-windows-gnu
    • x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
  • The MSVC ABI
    • i686-pc-windows-msvc
    • x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

The build triple can be specified by either specifying --build=<triple> when invoking x.py commands, or by copying the config.toml file (as described in Installing From Source), and modifying the build option under the [build] section.

Configure and Make

While it's not the recommended build system, this project also provides a configure script and makefile (the latter of which just invokes x.py).

$ ./configure
$ make && sudo make install

When using the configure script, the generated config.mk file may override the config.toml file. To go back to the config.toml file, delete the generated config.mk file.

Building Documentation

If youd like to build the documentation, its almost the same:

$ ./x.py doc

The generated documentation will appear under doc in the build directory for the ABI used. I.e., if the ABI was x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, the directory will be build\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\doc.

Notes

Since the Rust compiler is written in Rust, it must be built by a precompiled "snapshot" version of itself (made in an earlier stage of development). As such, source builds require a connection to the Internet, to fetch snapshots, and an OS that can execute the available snapshot binaries.

Snapshot binaries are currently built and tested on several platforms:

Platform / Architecture x86 x86_64
Windows (7, 8, 10, ...)
Linux (kernel 2.6.32, glibc 2.11 or later)
macOS (10.7 Lion or later) (*)

(*): Apple dropped support for running 32-bit binaries starting from macOS 10.15 and iOS 11. Due to this decision from Apple, the targets are no longer useful to our users. Please read our blog post for more info.

You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially supported build environments that are most likely to work.

Getting Help

The Rust community congregates in a few places:

Contributing

If you are interested in contributing to the Rust project, please take a look at the Getting Started guide in the rustc-dev-guide.

License

Rust is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0), with portions covered by various BSD-like licenses.

See LICENSE-APACHE, LICENSE-MIT, and COPYRIGHT for details.

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If you want to use these names or brands, please read the media guide.

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