[tor-bugs] #25386 [Core Tor/Tor]: Link Rust Tests to C Dependencies in Tor (allow integration testing from Rust to C)

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#25386: Link Rust Tests to C Dependencies in Tor (allow integration testing from
Rust to C)
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 Reporter:  Hello71                              |          Owner:  nickm
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  accepted
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.4.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.3.1-alpha
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  rust, tor-test, 033-backport,        |  Actual Points:
  review-group-34, 034-triage-20180328,          |
  034-included-20180401                          |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:  3
 Reviewer:  isis                                 |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  SponsorQ
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Comment (by nickm):

 Replying to [comment:67 Hello71]:
 > Replying to [comment:64 nickm]:
 > > Merged "additional_rust_fixes" to 0.3.4 and forward.
 > >
 > > > For the doctests, should we just have a policy of "if you call C and
 also have doctests for your code, then you have to put ignore on the
 doctests or otherwise disable them"?
 > >
 > > I think that's the best we can do, until rustdoc starts passing the
 right options to rustc.  (Perhaps it is doing so already, and my desktop
 rust is just too old.)
 >
 > I guess you missed it on IRC, rustdoc already accepts -C on nightly:
 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/49956. I assume this will be in
 1.27, to be released today.

 Okay; we'd have either wait a while to use this, until we can rely on
 folks having this. (Alternatively, we could make it optional.)

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