rust/compiler/rustc_incremental
bors b663c0f4f6 Auto merge of #85698 - ehuss:incremental-session-panic, r=estebank
Don't panic when failing to initialize incremental directory.

This removes a panic when rustc fails to initialize the incremental directory. This can commonly happen on various filesystems that don't support locking (often various network filesystems). Panics can be confusing and scary, and there are already plenty of issues reporting this.

This has been panicking since 1.22 due to I think #44502 which was a major rework of how things work. Previously, things were simpler and the [`load_dep_graph`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1.21.0/src/librustc_incremental/persist/load.rs#L43-L65) function would emit an error and then continue on without panicking. With 1.22, [`load_dep_graph`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1.22.0/src/librustc_incremental/persist/load.rs#L44) was changed so that it assumes it can load the data without errors. Today, the problem is that it calls [`prepare_session_directory`](fbf1b1a719/compiler/rustc_interface/src/passes.rs (L175-L179)) and then immediately calls `garbage_collect_session_directories` which will panic since the session is `IncrCompSession::NotInitialized`.

The solution here is to have `prepare_session_directory` return an error that must be handled so that compilation stops if it fails.

Some other options:

* Ignore directory lock failures.
* Print a warning on directory lock failure, but otherwise continue with incremental enabled.
* Print a warning on directory lock failure, and disable incremental.
* Provide a different locking mechanism.

Cargo ignores lock errors if locking is not supported, so that would be a precedent for the first option. These options would require quite a bit more changes, but I'm happy to entertain any of them, as I think they all have valid justifications.

There is more discussion on the many issues where this is reported: #49773, #59224, #66513, #76251. I'm not sure if this can be considered closing any of those, though, since I think there is some value in discussing if there is a way to avoid the error altogether. But I think it would make sense to at least close all but one to consolidate them.
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