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fix: COPY .cargo/ into both image builders (regression from #313), and correct the RUSTFLAGS fallback tier - #314

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Follow-up to #313. Two CodeRabbit findings that posted before I merged and that I merged past by polling CI without re-checking reviews. Both are correct; the first is a regression I introduced.

Critical: both Dockerfiles referenced a file the image does not contain

#313 converted the Dockerfiles from ENV RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=..." to cargo --config .cargo/config-vN.toml, to stop the RUSTFLAGS env from wiping the two crypto-backend cfgs. That reasoning stands. What it missed: both Dockerfiles COPY selectively by design — the Dockerfile says so in its own COPY block — and neither names .cargo/. The old env form had no file dependency. The new form does, and the file was never in the image.

Verified two-sided in a scratch crate, since there is no Docker daemon in the dev container:

cargo --config .cargo/config-v3.toml build result
config absent error: failed to parse value from --config argument, exit 101
config present Finished, exit 0

So the first RUN in each image would have failed before compiling anything.

Fixed with COPY .cargo/ .cargo/ ahead of the RUN block in both files. Checked rather than assumed:

  • the COPY precedes every RUN cargo (Dockerfile 82 < 98, Dockerfile.avx512 56 < 68)
  • .dockerignore does not exclude .cargo/
  • all nine config files are git-tracked, so they are in the build context

Root cause worth keeping: I changed a build I cannot run here and did not check that the file the new flag names is present in the image. A --config path is a build input, not just a flag.

The RUSTFLAGS fallback tier was misstated, and my own measurement disproves it

CLAUDE.md read: RUSTFLAGS "silently drops -Ctarget-cpu=x86-64-v4 and the arm measures v3".

Wrong. RUSTFLAGS replaces every config rustflags entry, so it drops the default config's target-cpu as well, not only the overlay's. The measurement from the same session is the disproof:

RUSTFLAGS -Ctarget-cpu flags emitted
unset 65
-D warnings 0

What you actually get is rustc's own default for the target, the x86-64 baseline (SSE2). That is lower than v3, and it is precisely the tier simd_avx2.rs's intrinsics SIGILL on. The sentence was wrong before the native flip too; the flip only changed which config gets discarded. Corrected in place with the numbers.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation

    • Corrected guidance on CPU feature settings and clarified the resulting baseline behavior when custom Rust flags are supplied.
  • Build Improvements

    • Ensured required build configuration files are available during containerized AVX2, AVX-512, JIT, and HPC workflows.
    • Prevented build commands from failing due to missing configuration files.

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Two findings from a CodeRabbit review that posted at 20:56 and that I merged
past at 21:02. Both are correct. The first is a regression I introduced in
#313 and it breaks both image builds.

## CRITICAL — both Dockerfiles referenced a file the image does not contain

#313 converted the Dockerfiles from `ENV RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=..."` to
`cargo --config .cargo/config-vN.toml` to stop the RUSTFLAGS env from wiping
the crypto-backend cfgs. That fix is right and stands. What it missed: both
Dockerfiles COPY selectively BY DESIGN (the Dockerfile says so at its own
COPY block), and neither names `.cargo/`. The old env form had no file
dependency; the new form does, and the file was never in the image.

Verified, two-sided, in a scratch crate:

  cargo --config .cargo/config-v3.toml build   (absent)   exit 101
  cargo --config .cargo/config-v3.toml build   (present)  exit 0, Finished

So the first RUN in each image would have failed before compiling anything.

Fixed with `COPY .cargo/ .cargo/` ahead of the RUN block in both files.
Checked rather than assumed: the COPY precedes every `RUN cargo` (Dockerfile
82 < 98, Dockerfile.avx512 56 < 68); `.dockerignore` does not exclude
`.cargo/`; all nine config files are git-tracked and therefore in the build
context.

Root cause worth keeping: I changed a build I cannot run — there is no Docker
daemon in this container — and did not check that the file the new flag
names is present in the image. A `--config` path is a build INPUT, not just a
flag.

## The fallback tier was misstated, and my own measurement disproves it

`CLAUDE.md` read: RUSTFLAGS "silently drops `-Ctarget-cpu=x86-64-v4` and the
arm measures v3". Wrong. RUSTFLAGS replaces EVERY config rustflags entry, so
it drops the DEFAULT config's target-cpu too, not only the overlay's. The
measurement from this same session is the disproof: `RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings"`
produced ZERO `-Ctarget-cpu` flags against 65 with the env unset. The build
gets rustc's own default for the target, the `x86-64` baseline (SSE2), which
is LOWER than v3 and is precisely the tier `simd_avx2.rs`'s intrinsics SIGILL
on. The sentence was wrong before the native flip too; the flip only changed
which config gets discarded. Corrected in place with the numbers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCfrD5y19cvFc4AoyydXYv
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The Docker build definitions now copy .cargo/ for AVX-related Cargo commands. The documentation now describes the effect of RUSTFLAGS on the target CPU setting.

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Dockerfile, Dockerfile.avx512
Both Dockerfiles copy .cargo/ so referenced Cargo configuration files are available during AVX2, AVX-512, JIT, and HPC build or test commands.
RUSTFLAGS behavior documentation
CLAUDE.md
The documentation states that RUSTFLAGS removes configured target-cpu flags and produces rustc’s x86-64/SSE2 default.

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In `@CLAUDE.md`:
- Around line 144-156: Update the native-arm fallback comment in
scripts/masking-parity.sh around the masking-parity workflow description to
state that setting RUSTFLAGS replaces configured rustflags, removes
target-cpu=native, and leaves rustc’s generic x86-64/SSE2 baseline rather than
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Comment thread CLAUDE.md
CodeRabbit on #314. `scripts/masking-parity.sh:26-30` carried the identical
claim this PR already corrected in CLAUDE.md: that a set RUSTFLAGS makes the
arm "measure v3 while claiming v4".

Sharper than a duplicate: CLAUDE.md's correction CITES this script as the
place the trap is documented, so the doc was fixed while the source it points
at still taught the wrong number. An exhaustive grep confirms these were the
only two instances outside the blackboard's historical record.

The correction, with this session's own measurement: RUSTFLAGS replaces EVERY
config rustflags entry, including the DEFAULT config's own `-Ctarget-cpu`, so
no target-cpu reaches rustc and the build lands on the generic `x86-64`
baseline (SSE2) — BELOW v3, and the tier `simd_avx2.rs`'s intrinsics SIGILL
on. Measured: `RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings"` emitted ZERO `-Ctarget-cpu` flags
against 65 with the env unset.

Also states what the arm now IS, since the default flip: it names no tier and
builds whatever config wins, by default `target-cpu=native`. Read the
program's own `avx512f=` header for the tier, or pin config-v3 for AVX2.

Verified the script still runs both ways:
  bash scripts/masking-parity.sh native                    PASS, avx512f=true
  CARGO_ARGS='--config .cargo/config-v3.toml' ... native    PASS, avx512f=false

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCfrD5y19cvFc4AoyydXYv
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