Doctests with #[proc_macro] attribute in non-procmacro crate

#1

I have a crate that is intended to be used in proc-macro crates but it's not a proc-macro on itself. So when I try to write an example in doc comments, say

extern crate proc_macro; 
extern crate my_lib;

#[proc_macro_derive(Hello)]
fn hello(input: proc_macro::TokenStream) -> proc_macro::TokenStream {
   // examples ...
}

cargo test fails with something like

error: the #[proc_macro_derive] attribute is only usable with crates of the proc-macro crate type
--> src/multi.rs:13:1
|
7 | #[proc_macro_derive(Hello)]
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So i had to mark all such examples as ignore.

Is there any way to make this work?

#2

I usually write:

# const IGNORE: &str = stringify! {
#[proc_macro]
# };
fn demo(input: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
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