diff --git a/src/tools/linkchecker/main.rs b/src/tools/linkchecker/main.rs
index 4092722501d0e..4170c32f1fe25 100644
--- a/src/tools/linkchecker/main.rs
+++ b/src/tools/linkchecker/main.rs
@@ -55,30 +55,6 @@ const LINKCHECK_EXCEPTIONS: &[(&str, &[&str])] = &[
#[rustfmt::skip]
const INTRA_DOC_LINK_EXCEPTIONS: &[(&str, &[&str])] = &[
- // This will never have links that are not in other pages.
- // To avoid repeating the exceptions twice, an empty list means all broken links are allowed.
- ("reference/print.html", &[]),
- // All the reference 'links' are actually ENBF highlighted as code
- ("reference/comments.html", &[
- "/ !",
- "*
!",
- ]),
- ("reference/identifiers.html", &[
- "a
-z
A
-Z",
- "a
-z
A
-Z
0
-9
_",
- "a
-z
A
-Z
] [a
-z
A
-Z
0
-9
_",
- ]),
- ("reference/tokens.html", &[
- "0
-1",
- "0
-7",
- "0
-9",
- "0
-9",
- "0
-9
a
-f
A
-F",
- ]),
- ("reference/notation.html", &[
- "b
B",
- "a
-z",
- ]),
// This is being used in the sense of 'inclusive range', not a markdown link
("core/ops/struct.RangeInclusive.html", &["begin
, end"]),
("std/ops/struct.RangeInclusive.html", &["begin
, end"]),
@@ -382,6 +358,16 @@ impl Checker {
source: &str,
report: &mut Report,
) {
+ let relative = file.strip_prefix(&self.root).expect("should always be relative to root");
+ // Don't check the reference. It has several legitimate things that
+ // look like […
]. The reference has its own broken link
+ // checker in its CI which handles this using pulldown_cmark.
+ //
+ // This checks both the end of the root (when checking just the
+ // reference directory) or the beginning (when checking all docs).
+ if self.root.ends_with("reference") || relative.starts_with("reference") {
+ return;
+ }
// Search for intra-doc links that rustdoc didn't warn about
// FIXME(#77199, 77200) Rustdoc should just warn about these directly.
// NOTE: only looks at one line at a time; in practice this should find most links