The test build_script_with_dynamic_native_dependency does not seem to be working as it was originally intended. I was going to fix it myself, but there are too many changes that I don't understand. There are two primary issues:

• This line in the test points to a non-existing path:

  cargo/tests/testsuite/build_script.rs

  Line 1440 in b3d0b2e

  println!("cargo:rustc-link-search=native={}/target/debug/deps",

• These lines do not have any test coverage (removing add_plugin_deps does not cause any errors):

  cargo/src/cargo/core/compiler/mod.rs

  Lines 517 to 542 in b3d0b2e

  	// For all plugin dependencies, add their -L paths (now calculated and
  	// present in `state`) to the dynamic library load path for the command to
  	// execute.
  	fn add_plugin_deps(
  	rustc: &mut ProcessBuilder,
  	build_state: &BuildMap,
  	build_scripts: &BuildScripts,
  	root_output: &PathBuf,
  	) -> CargoResult<()> {
  	let var = util::dylib_path_envvar();
  	let search_path = rustc.get_env(var).unwrap_or_default();
  	let mut search_path = env::split_paths(&search_path).collect::<Vec<_>>();
  	for id in build_scripts.plugins.iter() {
  	let key = (id.clone(), Kind::Host);
  	let output = build_state
  	.get(&key)
  	.ok_or_else(|| internal(format!("couldn't find libs for plugin dep {}", id)))?;
  	search_path.append(&mut filter_dynamic_search_path(
  	output.library_paths.iter(),
  	root_output,
  	));
  	}
  	let search_path = join_paths(&search_path, var)?;
  	rustc.env(var, &search_path);
  	Ok(())
  	}

The history for this test:

• The test and add_plugin_deps added in Remove the deprecated build command infrastructure #1195.
• The test dylib builder was changed to add plugin = true in Don't link build scripts dynamically #1960. ← This one I particularly don't understand.
• Test was changed to use a workspace in fix dynamic search path for build scripts #3974 which resulted in the build script emitting a path that does not exist. That PR also changed it so that linker paths must be prefixes of the target/debug directory, so you can't just switch it back to a non-workspace.

It's not clear to me how #3974 was supposed to work. It's also not clear if add_plugin_deps is even needed anymore. I would think all plugin dylibs should already live in the deps dir which is already included in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so I don't know why add_plugin_deps exists.