Add support for excluding tests via config.toml

[Aditya-PS-05]

closes #35678

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This PR modifies src/bootstrap/src/core/config.

If appropriate, please update CONFIG_CHANGE_HISTORY in src/bootstrap/src/utils/change_tracker.rs.

This PR modifies config.example.toml.

If appropriate, please update CONFIG_CHANGE_HISTORY in src/bootstrap/src/utils/change_tracker.rs.

[Mark-Simulacrum]

This feels suspicious. I think we already have a mechanism for skipping things (--exclude on the CLI) so I'd expect that any config.toml mechanism matches the behavior of that. Why do you need to change anything except plumbing through the new config.toml field to match the behavior of --exclude?

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debug: `DISABLE_CI_RUSTC_IF_INCOMPATIBLE` configured.
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##[group]Configure the build
configure: processing command line
configure: 
configure: build.configure-args := ['--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu', '--llvm-root=/usr/lib/llvm-18', '--enable-llvm-link-shared', '--set', 'rust.randomize-layout=true', '--set', 'rust.thin-lto-import-instr-limit=10', '--enable-verbose-configure', '--enable-sccache', '--disable-manage-submodules', '--enable-locked-deps', '--enable-cargo-native-static', '--set', 'rust.codegen-units-std=1', '--set', 'dist.compression-profile=balanced', '--dist-compression-formats=xz', '--set', 'rust.lld=false', '--disable-dist-src', '--release-channel=nightly', '--enable-debug-assertions', '--enable-overflow-checks', '--enable-llvm-assertions', '--set', 'rust.verify-llvm-ir', '--set', 'rust.codegen-backends=llvm,cranelift,gcc', '--set', 'llvm.static-libstdcpp', '--enable-new-symbol-mangling']
configure: target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.llvm-config := /usr/lib/llvm-18/bin/llvm-config
configure: llvm.link-shared     := True
configure: rust.randomize-layout := True
configure: rust.thin-lto-import-instr-limit := 10
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   Compiling y v0.1.0 (/checkout/compiler/rustc_codegen_gcc/build_system)
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     Running `/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-codegen/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/y test --use-system-gcc --use-backend gcc --out-dir /checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-tools/cg_gcc --release --mini-tests --std-tests`
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  = note: for more information, see issue #116344 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/116344>
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failures:

---- core::builder::tests::test_test_coverage stdout ----
Testing case: ["test"]
Testing case: ["test", "coverage"]
Testing case: ["test", "coverage-map"]
Testing case: ["test", "coverage-run"]
Testing case: ["test", "coverage", "--skip=coverage"]
thread 'core::builder::tests::test_test_coverage' panicked at src/bootstrap/src/core/builder/tests.rs:956:9:
assertion `left == right` failed
  left: ["coverage-map", "coverage-run"]
 right: []

[Dylan-DPC]

@Aditya-PS-05 any updates on this? thanks

[alex-semenyuk]

@Aditya-PS-05
From wg-triage. Closed this PR due to inactivity. Feel free to reopen or raised new one. Thanks for your efforts.