CI: test bootstrap build

Author: RalfJung

src/tools/miri/.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -117,6 +117,41 @@ jobs:
       - name: rustdoc
         run: RUSTDOCFLAGS="-Dwarnings" ./miri doc --document-private-items
 
+  bootstrap:
+    name: bootstrap build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      # Deliberately skipping `./.github/workflows/setup` as we do our own setup
+      - name: Add cache for cargo
+        id: cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            # Taken from <https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/guide/cargo-home.html#caching-the-cargo-home-in-ci>.
+            # Cache package/registry information
+            ~/.cargo/registry/index
+            ~/.cargo/registry/cache
+            ~/.cargo/git/db
+            # Cache bootstrap downloads
+            ../rust/build/cache
+          key: cargo-bootstrap-${{ hashFiles('rust-version') }}
+          restore-keys: cargo-bootstrap
+      - name: prepare build environment
+        run: |
+          MIRIDIR=$(pwd)
+          cd ..
+          # Bootstrap needs at least depth 2 to function.
+          git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/ rust --depth 2 --revision $(cat "$MIRIDIR/rust-version")
+          cd rust
+          # Replace the in-tree Miri with the current version.
+          rm src/tools/miri -rf
+          ln -s "$MIRIDIR" src/tools/miri
+      - name: check build
+        run: |
+          cd ../rust # ./x does not seem to like being invoked from elsewhere
+          ./x check miri
+
   coverage:
     name: coverage report
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -130,7 +165,7 @@ jobs:
   # ALL THE PREVIOUS JOBS NEED TO BE ADDED TO THE `needs` SECTION OF THIS JOB!
   # And they should be added below in `cron-fail-notify` as well.
   conclusion:
-    needs: [test, style, coverage]
+    needs: [test, style, bootstrap, coverage]
     # We need to ensure this job does *not* get skipped if its dependencies fail,
     # because a skipped job is considered a success by GitHub. So we have to
     # overwrite `if:`. We use `!cancelled()` to ensure the job does still not get run
@@ -211,7 +246,7 @@ jobs:
   cron-fail-notify:
     name: cronjob failure notification
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: [test, style, coverage]
+    needs: [test, style, bootstrap, coverage]
     if: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && failure() }}
     steps:
       # Send a Zulip notification