Result for search term "term::stdout" in Rust docs (std) is a link to a non-existent page (404)

[rozbb]

Entering the above search term or just going here and clicking the first (and only) search result leads you to a Github Pages 404 page.

Note that this link works just fine.

[tomjakubowski]

If you search from the "nightly" docs at http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/?search=term%3A%3Astdout the correct URL is returned.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a rustdoc bug. It might be caused by something like a stale search index, which in turn may have been caused by rebuilding the std docs in a previously used directory without cleaning.

More evidence: on http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ there is a link on the sidebar to the term crate at ../term/index.html. This is a placeholder page that just has a redirect to the canonical location for that crate's docs, at http://doc.rust-lang.org/term/term/index.html.

[tomjakubowski]

cc #20096 (which seems to be a highly related issue) and @alexcrichton

[alexcrichton]

This problem is actually a little more subtle! The search index contains information about the in-tree term crate, but the doc.rust-lang.org/term url actually refers to the external term crate (we have a redirection rule locally). As a result the in-tree link (when browsing doc.rust-lang.org/std) is incorrect, but when browsing /nightly/std it's correct.

We shouldn't be generating this documentation regardless, however so I'm going to solve it that way :)

[SimonSapin]

@alexcrichton This issue was marked closed in ed276ca, but I can still reproduce it though the steps in the original message.

[steveklabnik]

I can too

[rozbb]

No longer reproducible