rust: kbuild: clean output before running `rustdoc`
authorMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Sat, 26 Jul 2025 13:34:35 +0000 (15:34 +0200)
committerMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:10:50 +0000 (21:10 +0200)
commit252fea131e15aba2cd487119d1a8f546471199e2
tree9140a2d54d99efacaa550433d47a8640e857cd12
parentabbf9a44944171ca99c150adad9361a2f517d3b6
rust: kbuild: clean output before running `rustdoc`

`rustdoc` can get confused when generating documentation into a folder
that contains generated files from other `rustdoc` versions.

For instance, running something like:

    rustup default 1.78.0
    make LLVM=1 rustdoc
    rustup default 1.88.0
    make LLVM=1 rustdoc

may generate errors like:

    error: couldn't generate documentation: invalid template: last line expected to start with a comment
      |
      = note: failed to create or modify "./Documentation/output/rust/rustdoc/src-files.js"

Thus just always clean the output folder before generating the
documentation -- we are anyway regenerating it every time the `rustdoc`
target gets called, at least for the time being.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # Needed in 6.12.y and later (Rust is pinned in older LTSs).
Reported-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
Closes: https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/288089/topic/x/near/527201113
Reviewed-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250726133435.2460085-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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