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Constructs the dependency graph for compilation.
Rust code is typically organized as a set of Cargo packages. The
dependencies between the packages themselves are stored in the
Resolve
struct. However, we can’t use that information as is for
compilation! A package typically contains several targets, or crates,
and these targets has inter-dependencies. For example, you need to
compile the lib
target before the bin
one, and you need to compile
build.rs
before either of those.
So, we need to lower the Resolve
, which specifies dependencies between
packages, to a graph of dependencies between their targets, and this
is exactly what this module is doing! Well, almost exactly: another
complication is that we might want to compile the same target several times
(for example, with and without tests), so we actually build a dependency
graph of Unit
s, which capture these properties.
Enums
A boolean-like to indicate if a Unit
is an artifact or not.