improve diagnostics for invalid external docs

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/src/libsyntax/ext/expand.rs b/src/libsyntax/ext/expand.rs
index adf080a27a3..44d5ae6b40d 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/ext/expand.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/ext/expand.rs
@@ -1535,17 +1535,33 @@ impl<'a, 'b> Folder for InvocationCollector<'a, 'b> {
                             let item = attr::mk_list_item(DUMMY_SP, include_ident, include_info);
                             items.push(dummy_spanned(ast::NestedMetaItemKind::MetaItem(item)));
                         }
-                        Err(ref e) if e.kind() == ErrorKind::InvalidData => {
-                            self.cx.span_err(
-                                at.span,
-                                &format!("{} wasn't a utf-8 file", filename.display()),
-                            );
-                        }
                         Err(e) => {
-                            self.cx.span_err(
-                                at.span,
-                                &format!("couldn't read {}: {}", filename.display(), e),
-                            );
+                            let lit = it
+                                .meta_item()
+                                .and_then(|item| item.name_value_literal())
+                                .unwrap();
+
+                            if e.kind() == ErrorKind::InvalidData {
+                                self.cx
+                                    .struct_span_err(
+                                        lit.span,
+                                        &format!("{} wasn't a utf-8 file", filename.display()),
+                                    )
+                                    .span_label(lit.span, "contains invalid utf-8")
+                                    .emit();
+                            } else {
+                                let mut err = self.cx.struct_span_err(
+                                    lit.span,
+                                    &format!("couldn't read {}: {}", filename.display(), e),
+                                );
+                                err.span_label(lit.span, "couldn't read file");
+
+                                if e.kind() == ErrorKind::NotFound {
+                                    err.help("external doc paths are relative to the crate root");
+                                }
+
+                                err.emit();
+                            }
                         }
                     }
                 } else {