rustdoc: link to stable/beta docs consistently in documentation

 ## User-facing changes

- Intra-doc links to primitives that currently go to rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.x.html will start going to channel that rustdoc was built with. Nightly will continue going to /nightly; Beta will link to /beta; stable compilers will link to /1.52.1 (or whatever version they were built as).
- Cross-crate links from std to core currently go to /nightly unconditionally. They will start going to /1.52.0 on stable channels (but remain the same on nightly channels).
- Intra-crate links from std to std (or core to core) currently go to the same URL they are hosted at; they will continue to do so. Notably, this is different from everything else because it can preserve the distinction between /stable and /1.52.0 by using relative links.

Note that "links" includes both intra-doc links and rustdoc's own
automatically generated hyperlinks.

 ## Implementation changes

- Update the testsuite to allow linking to /beta and /1.52.1 in docs
- Use an html_root_url for the standard library that's dependent on the channel

  This avoids linking to nightly docs on stable.

- Update rustdoc to use channel-dependent links for primitives from an
  unknown crate

- Set DOC_RUST_LANG_ORG_CHANNEL from bootstrap to ensure it's in sync
- Include doc.rust-lang.org in the channel

Author: jyn514

library/alloc/src/lib.rs

@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@
 #![allow(unused_attributes)]
 #![stable(feature = "alloc", since = "1.36.0")]
 #![doc(
-    html_root_url = "https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/",
     html_playground_url = "https://play.rust-lang.org/",
     issue_tracker_base_url = "https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/",
     test(no_crate_inject, attr(allow(unused_variables), deny(warnings)))

library/core/src/lib.rs

@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 #![cfg(not(test))]
 #![stable(feature = "core", since = "1.6.0")]
 #![doc(
-    html_root_url = "https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/",
     html_playground_url = "https://play.rust-lang.org/",
     issue_tracker_base_url = "https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/",
     test(no_crate_inject, attr(deny(warnings))),

library/panic_abort/src/lib.rs

@@ -5,10 +5,7 @@
 
 #![no_std]
 #![unstable(feature = "panic_abort", issue = "32837")]
-#![doc(
-    html_root_url = "https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/",
-    issue_tracker_base_url = "https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/"
-)]
+#![doc(issue_tracker_base_url = "https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/")]
 #![panic_runtime]
 #![allow(unused_features)]
 #![feature(core_intrinsics)]

library/panic_unwind/src/lib.rs

@@ -13,10 +13,7 @@
 
 #![no_std]
 #![unstable(feature = "panic_unwind", issue = "32837")]
-#![doc(
-    html_root_url = "https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/",
-    issue_tracker_base_url = "https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/"
-)]
+#![doc(issue_tracker_base_url = "https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/")]
 #![feature(core_intrinsics)]
 #![feature(lang_items)]
 #![feature(nll)]

library/proc_macro/src/lib.rs

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 #![stable(feature = "proc_macro_lib", since = "1.15.0")]
 #![deny(missing_docs)]
 #![doc(
-    html_root_url = "https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/",
     html_playground_url = "https://play.rust-lang.org/",
     issue_tracker_base_url = "https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/",
     test(no_crate_inject, attr(deny(warnings))),

library/std/src/lib.rs

@@ -190,7 +190,6 @@
 #![cfg_attr(not(feature = "restricted-std"), stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0"))]
 #![cfg_attr(feature = "restricted-std", unstable(feature = "restricted_std", issue = "none"))]
 #![doc(
-    html_root_url = "https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/",
     html_playground_url = "https://play.rust-lang.org/",
     issue_tracker_base_url = "https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/",
     test(no_crate_inject, attr(deny(warnings))),

library/term/src/lib.rs

@@ -30,11 +30,7 @@
 //! [win]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/character-mode-applications
 //! [ti]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminfo
 
-#![doc(
-    html_root_url = "https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/",
-    html_playground_url = "https://play.rust-lang.org/",
-    test(attr(deny(warnings)))
-)]
+#![doc(html_playground_url = "https://play.rust-lang.org/", test(attr(deny(warnings))))]
 #![deny(missing_docs)]
 #![cfg_attr(windows, feature(libc))]
 

library/test/src/lib.rs

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 #![crate_name = "test"]
 #![unstable(feature = "test", issue = "50297")]
-#![doc(html_root_url = "https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/", test(attr(deny(warnings))))]
+#![doc(test(attr(deny(warnings))))]
 #![cfg_attr(unix, feature(libc))]
 #![feature(rustc_private)]
 #![feature(nll)]

src/bootstrap/builder.rs

@@ -574,6 +574,18 @@ impl<'a> Builder<'a> {
         self.run_step_descriptions(&Builder::get_step_descriptions(Kind::Doc), paths);
     }
 
+    /// NOTE: keep this in sync with `rustdoc::clean::utils::doc_rust_lang_org_channel`, or tests will fail on beta/stable.
+    pub fn doc_rust_lang_org_channel(&self) -> String {
+        let channel = match &*self.config.channel {
+            "stable" => &self.version,
+            "beta" => "beta",
+            "nightly" | "dev" => "nightly",
+            // custom build of rustdoc maybe? link to the latest stable docs just in case
+            _ => "stable",
+        };
+        "https://doc.rust-lang.org/".to_owned() + channel
+    }
+
     fn run_step_descriptions(&self, v: &[StepDescription], paths: &[PathBuf]) {
         StepDescription::run(v, self, paths);
     }

src/bootstrap/compile.rs

@@ -326,6 +326,11 @@ pub fn std_cargo(builder: &Builder<'_>, target: TargetSelection, stage: u32, car
     if target.contains("riscv") {
         cargo.rustflag("-Cforce-unwind-tables=yes");
     }
+
+    let html_root =
+        format!("-Zcrate-attr=doc(html_root_url=\"{}/\")", builder.doc_rust_lang_org_channel(),);
+    cargo.rustflag(&html_root);
+    cargo.rustdocflag(&html_root);
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]