Add test verifying behavior in rust-lang#10744

tests/testsuite/rustflags.rs

@@ -1587,3 +1587,20 @@ fn host_config_rustflags_with_target() {
         .arg("host.rustflags=[\"--cfg=foo\"]")
         .run();
 }
+
+#[cargo_test]
+fn target_applies_to_host_rustflags_works() {
+    // Ensures that rustflags are passed to the target when
+    // target_applies_to_host=false
+    let p = project().file("src/lib.rs", "").build();
+
+    // Use RUSTFLAGS to pass an argument that would generate an error
+    // but it is ignored.
+    p.cargo("check")
+        .masquerade_as_nightly_cargo(&["target-applies-to-host"])
+        .arg("-Ztarget-applies-to-host")
+        .env("CARGO_TARGET_APPLIES_TO_HOST", "false")
+        .env("RUSTFLAGS", "-Z bogus")
+        .with_status(0)
+        .run();
+}