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What does this PR try to resolve?

This PR renames the unstable -Zno-embed-metadata flag to -Zembed-metadata=no, as proposed in https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/246057-t-cargo/topic/Usage.20of.20-Zno-embed-metadata/with/607232149. So that in the future it can be controlled both via no and yes, to allow opt-in/opt-out.

To enable the flag by default, I want to detect whether we both have nightly Cargo and nightly rustc. I'm not sure what's the best way to do that, but I tried to access Rustc through the BuildContext and determine if it is nightly or dev based on the output of rustc -vV. We decided to postpone this to a follow-up PR.

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cargo test --test testsuite -- build will run a few tests that leverage -Zembed-metadata.

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Sorry, I wasn't in the team meeting for this and something seems to either be missing in the team meeting notes or in the discussion itself

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Do we want to land the first half first?

Rename -Zno-embed-metadata to -Zembed-metadata=no

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Happy to change the PR to that effect, if it can make it simpler to review and move this forward!

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Yeah I think that is less controversial while we are gathering more data points and sorting out the command line argument length issue (oof)

@Kobzol Kobzol changed the title Rename -Zno-embed-metadata to -Zembed-metadata=no and use it by default on nightly Rename -Zno-embed-metadata to -Zembed-metadata=no Jul 12, 2026
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This PR was rebased onto a different master commit. Here's a range-diff highlighting what actually changed.

Rebasing is a normal part of keeping PRs up to date, so no action is needed—this note is just to help reviewers.

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Ok, done.

FWIW, the CLI length increase with -Zembed-metadata=no isn't that bad, it only affects the leaf compiled crates (usually bins), and is at most a 2x increase. We can also leverage the rustc heuristic to get rid of the increase, if it gets too long.

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Thanks!

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Auto merge of #159475 - weihanglo:update-cargo, r=weihanglo
0ec51a2 
Update cargo submodule

29 commits in 59800466c5c41c444d264b1010b4d57e85a7117f..3efb1f477e99b42974b982d939fd100303cdf7db
2026-07-07 15:52:22 +0000 to 2026-07-17 23:53:19 +0000
- refactor(context): normalize in `homedir` instead (rust-lang/cargo#17222)
- chore(ci): reflect doc folder move in book deployment (rust-lang/cargo#17235)
- refactor(ops): Have cargo-metadata's ops match the command name (rust-lang/cargo#17233)
- chore: Flatten src (rust-lang/cargo#17231)
- chore: Flatten `src` (rust-lang/cargo#17230)
- chore(ci): remove stale libsecret packages (rust-lang/cargo#17229)
- perf: Lazily initialize git2 fetch transports  (rust-lang/cargo#17226)
- test(trim-paths): re-enable lldb debugger tests  (rust-lang/cargo#17223)
- Include SBOM outputs in fingerprints (rust-lang/cargo#17216)
- Update cfg_aliases to 0.2.2 (rust-lang/cargo#17225)
- test(trim-paths): exercise GDB on windows-gnu (rust-lang/cargo#17221)
- feat(profile): Disable incremental compilation under CI by default (rust-lang/cargo#17220)
- Remove myself from review rotation (rust-lang/cargo#17219)
- Fix typo in comment in sync (rust-lang/cargo#17217)
- docs(ref): Improve handing of built-in profiles (rust-lang/cargo#17213)
- fix: dont apply host-config gating to stable behavior (rust-lang/cargo#17198)
- chore(deps): update msrv (rust-lang/cargo#17192)
- test: fix race in cargo_compile_with_invalid_code_in_deps (rust-lang/cargo#17203)
- Rename `-Zno-embed-metadata` to `-Zembed-metadata=no` (rust-lang/cargo#17149)
- fix(source): incorrect duplicate package warning (rust-lang/cargo#17204)
- Fix manifest schema generation: `TomlDebugInfo` enum-variants doesn't renamed (rust-lang/cargo#17202)
- Reduce library search path length in new build dir layout (rust-lang/cargo#17191)
- fix(install): Move --debug to Compilation options (rust-lang/cargo#17199)
- chore(ci): dogfood `build.warnings` (rust-lang/cargo#17195)
- docs(lints): Better match clippy in lint section titles (rust-lang/cargo#17190)
- chore: bump to 0.100.0; update changelog (rust-lang/cargo#17189)
- docs(ref): Clarify MSRV for lints (rust-lang/cargo#17184)
- docs(report): add missing entry for `cargo report future-incompatibilities` (rust-lang/cargo#17188)
- Reduce rustc `-L` args used in the new `build-dir` layout (rust-lang/cargo#17168)
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Auto merge of #159475 - weihanglo:update-cargo, r=weihanglo
8a3308e 
Update cargo submodule

29 commits in 59800466c5c41c444d264b1010b4d57e85a7117f..3efb1f477e99b42974b982d939fd100303cdf7db
2026-07-07 15:52:22 +0000 to 2026-07-17 23:53:19 +0000
- refactor(context): normalize in `homedir` instead (rust-lang/cargo#17222)
- chore(ci): reflect doc folder move in book deployment (rust-lang/cargo#17235)
- refactor(ops): Have cargo-metadata's ops match the command name (rust-lang/cargo#17233)
- chore: Flatten src (rust-lang/cargo#17231)
- chore: Flatten `src` (rust-lang/cargo#17230)
- chore(ci): remove stale libsecret packages (rust-lang/cargo#17229)
- perf: Lazily initialize git2 fetch transports  (rust-lang/cargo#17226)
- test(trim-paths): re-enable lldb debugger tests  (rust-lang/cargo#17223)
- Include SBOM outputs in fingerprints (rust-lang/cargo#17216)
- Update cfg_aliases to 0.2.2 (rust-lang/cargo#17225)
- test(trim-paths): exercise GDB on windows-gnu (rust-lang/cargo#17221)
- feat(profile): Disable incremental compilation under CI by default (rust-lang/cargo#17220)
- Remove myself from review rotation (rust-lang/cargo#17219)
- Fix typo in comment in sync (rust-lang/cargo#17217)
- docs(ref): Improve handing of built-in profiles (rust-lang/cargo#17213)
- fix: dont apply host-config gating to stable behavior (rust-lang/cargo#17198)
- chore(deps): update msrv (rust-lang/cargo#17192)
- test: fix race in cargo_compile_with_invalid_code_in_deps (rust-lang/cargo#17203)
- Rename `-Zno-embed-metadata` to `-Zembed-metadata=no` (rust-lang/cargo#17149)
- fix(source): incorrect duplicate package warning (rust-lang/cargo#17204)
- Fix manifest schema generation: `TomlDebugInfo` enum-variants doesn't renamed (rust-lang/cargo#17202)
- Reduce library search path length in new build dir layout (rust-lang/cargo#17191)
- fix(install): Move --debug to Compilation options (rust-lang/cargo#17199)
- chore(ci): dogfood `build.warnings` (rust-lang/cargo#17195)
- docs(lints): Better match clippy in lint section titles (rust-lang/cargo#17190)
- chore: bump to 0.100.0; update changelog (rust-lang/cargo#17189)
- docs(ref): Clarify MSRV for lints (rust-lang/cargo#17184)
- docs(report): add missing entry for `cargo report future-incompatibilities` (rust-lang/cargo#17188)
- Reduce rustc `-L` args used in the new `build-dir` layout (rust-lang/cargo#17168)
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Update bootstrap to use -Zembed-metadata=no instead of -Zno-embed-met…
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…adata

The recent Cargo submodule update picked up <rust-lang/cargo#17149>

However, bootstrap was still using the old name, resulting in:

```
Building stage1 library artifacts (stage1 -> stage1, arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc)
error: unknown `-Z` flag specified: no-embed-metadata
```

Fix is to switch to the rename.

I also removed the diff in the Cranelift setup script, since they must have already hit this issue and no longer need the workaround.
jhpratt added a commit to jhpratt/rust that referenced this pull request Jul 23, 2026
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Rollup merge of rust-lang#159781 - dpaoliello:noembed, r=Kobzol
5d60d36 
Update bootstrap to use -Zembed-metadata=no instead of -Zno-embed-metadata

The recent Cargo submodule update picked up <rust-lang/cargo#17149>

However, bootstrap was still using the old name, resulting in:

```
Building stage1 library artifacts (stage1 -> stage1, arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc)
error: unknown `-Z` flag specified: no-embed-metadata
```

Fix is to switch to the rename.

I also removed the diff in the Cranelift setup script, since they must have already hit this issue and no longer need the workaround.
jhpratt added a commit to jhpratt/rust that referenced this pull request Jul 24, 2026
@jhpratt
Rollup merge of rust-lang#159781 - dpaoliello:noembed, r=Kobzol
0dedada 
Update bootstrap to use -Zembed-metadata=no instead of -Zno-embed-metadata

The recent Cargo submodule update picked up <rust-lang/cargo#17149>

However, bootstrap was still using the old name, resulting in:

```
Building stage1 library artifacts (stage1 -> stage1, arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc)
error: unknown `-Z` flag specified: no-embed-metadata
```

Fix is to switch to the rename.

I also removed the diff in the Cranelift setup script, since they must have already hit this issue and no longer need the workaround.
jhpratt added a commit to jhpratt/rust that referenced this pull request Jul 24, 2026
@jhpratt
Rollup merge of rust-lang#159781 - dpaoliello:noembed, r=Kobzol
bc9e714 
Update bootstrap to use -Zembed-metadata=no instead of -Zno-embed-metadata

The recent Cargo submodule update picked up <rust-lang/cargo#17149>

However, bootstrap was still using the old name, resulting in:

```
Building stage1 library artifacts (stage1 -> stage1, arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc)
error: unknown `-Z` flag specified: no-embed-metadata
```

Fix is to switch to the rename.

I also removed the diff in the Cranelift setup script, since they must have already hit this issue and no longer need the workaround.
jhpratt added a commit to jhpratt/rust that referenced this pull request Jul 24, 2026
@jhpratt
Rollup merge of rust-lang#159781 - dpaoliello:noembed, r=Kobzol
5e46148 
Update bootstrap to use -Zembed-metadata=no instead of -Zno-embed-metadata

The recent Cargo submodule update picked up <rust-lang/cargo#17149>

However, bootstrap was still using the old name, resulting in:

```
Building stage1 library artifacts (stage1 -> stage1, arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc)
error: unknown `-Z` flag specified: no-embed-metadata
```

Fix is to switch to the rename.

I also removed the diff in the Cranelift setup script, since they must have already hit this issue and no longer need the workaround.
rust-timer added a commit to rust-lang/rust that referenced this pull request Jul 24, 2026
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Unrolled build for #159781
501efcb 
Rollup merge of #159781 - dpaoliello:noembed, r=Kobzol

Update bootstrap to use -Zembed-metadata=no instead of -Zno-embed-metadata

The recent Cargo submodule update picked up <rust-lang/cargo#17149>

However, bootstrap was still using the old name, resulting in:

```
Building stage1 library artifacts (stage1 -> stage1, arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc)
error: unknown `-Z` flag specified: no-embed-metadata
```

Fix is to switch to the rename.

I also removed the diff in the Cranelift setup script, since they must have already hit this issue and no longer need the workaround.
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