Enable "Checking conditional compilation value at compile time" when it is stable?

[SteveLauC]

• RFC
• Tracking issue

This will check invalid conditions, which would be quite useful for us, see the following demo:

#[cfg(target_os = "linxu")]  // NOTE this typo!
fn foo_for_linux() { }

fn main() { }

$ cargo +nightly check -Z unstable-options -Z check-cfg
    Checking rust v0.1.0 (/home/steve/Documents/workspace/playground/rust)

warning: unexpected `cfg` condition value: `linxu`
 --> src/main.rs:1:7
  |
1 | #[cfg(target_os = "linxu")]
  |       ^^^^^^^^^^^^-------
  |                   |
  |                   help: there is a expected value with a similar name: `"linux"`
  |
  = note: expected values for `target_os` are: `aix`, `android`, `cuda`, `dragonfly`, `emscripten`, `espidf`, `freebsd`, `fuchsia`, `haiku`, `hermit`, `horizon`, `hurd`, `illumos`, `ios`, `l4re`, `linux`, `macos`, `netbsd`, `none`, `nto`, `openbsd`, `psp`, `redox`, `solaris`, `solid_asp3`, `teeos`, `tvos`, `uefi`, `unknown`, `vita`, `vxworks`, `wasi`, `watchos`, `windows`, `xous`
  = note: see <https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/unstable.html#check-cfg> for more information about checking conditional configuration
  = note: `#[warn(unexpected_cfgs)]` on by default

Our aliases defined in build.rs are also invalid, to allow them, we can:

// build.rs

fn main() {
    println!("cargo:rustc-check-cfg=cfg(apple_targets)");
    println!("cargo:rustc-check-cfg=cfg(bsd)");
    println!("cargo:rustc-check-cfg=cfg(linux_android)");
    println!("cargo:rustc-check-cfg=cfg(freebsdlike)");
    println!("cargo:rustc-check-cfg=cfg(netbsdlike)");
    println!("cargo:rustc-check-cfg=cfg(solarish)");
    
    ...

}

It is still unstable and only available in nightly, maybe we can enable this check when it is in stable.

[SteveLauC]

Oops, I just noticed this is a duplicate of #1734

[SteveLauC]

Looks like we already had this since Rust nightly 1.80, see this PR: #2394

[asomers]

Yeah, I think we should close the issue. it's good enough to have it on nightly.