rust: Fix "multiple candidates for rmeta dependency core" error

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When building Rust code for powerpc64le with LLVM=1 and -j1, rustc
encounters an error: "multiple candidates for `rmeta` dependency `core`
found", with two candidates:
1. The host's standard library from the rustup toolchain
2. The kernel's custom libcore.rmeta in the rust/ directory

This occurs because the build system uses `-L$(objtree)/rust` for host
library builds (proc_macro2, quote, syn), which causes rustc to search
the rust/ directory. During this search, rustc finds both the kernel's
custom libcore.rmeta and gains access to the host's standard library,
creating a conflict.

The solution is to separate host libraries into a dedicated rust/host/
subdirectory and use `-L$(objtree)/rust/host` for host builds instead
of `-L$(objtree)/rust`. This ensures that:

1. Host library builds (proc_macro2, quote, syn) only search rust/host/
   and never encounter the kernel's libcore.rmeta
2. Proc macro builds use `-L$(objtree)/rust/host` to find their
   dependencies

Special handling is added for rustdoc-pin_init, which is a host build
(to access the alloc crate) but depends on proc macros from the main
rust/ directory. It uses explicit `--extern` paths to reference the
proc macros without adding `-L$(objtree)/rust`, which would reintroduce
the conflict.

The rust/host/ directory is added to clean-files to ensure it's removed
during `make clean`.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/105
Link: https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/451
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260708082454.1254320-2-mkchauras@gmail.com

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Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) 2026-07-08 13:54:48 +05:30 • committed by Madhavan Srinivasan

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