diff --git a/src/tools/compiletest/Cargo.toml b/src/tools/compiletest/Cargo.toml
index b784bdb713941..16cc1d2a565de 100644
--- a/src/tools/compiletest/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/tools/compiletest/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ indexmap = "2.0.0"
 miropt-test-tools = { path = "../miropt-test-tools" }
 build_helper = { path = "../../build_helper" }
 tracing = "0.1"
-tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.3", default-features = false, features = ["fmt", "env-filter", "smallvec", "parking_lot", "ansi"] }
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.3", default-features = false, features = ["ansi", "env-filter", "fmt", "parking_lot", "smallvec"] }
 regex = "1.0"
 semver = { version = "1.0.23", features = ["serde"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
diff --git a/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest.rs b/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest.rs
index 6a4f0b96bb4de..108fde1c89955 100644
--- a/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest.rs
+++ b/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest.rs
@@ -2809,29 +2809,6 @@ impl<'test> TestCx<'test> {
             println!("init_incremental_test: incremental_dir={}", incremental_dir.display());
         }
     }
-
-    fn aggressive_rm_rf(&self, path: &Path) -> io::Result<()> {
-        for e in path.read_dir()? {
-            let entry = e?;
-            let path = entry.path();
-            if entry.file_type()?.is_dir() {
-                self.aggressive_rm_rf(&path)?;
-            } else {
-                // Remove readonly files as well on windows (by default we can't)
-                fs::remove_file(&path).or_else(|e| {
-                    if cfg!(windows) && e.kind() == io::ErrorKind::PermissionDenied {
-                        let mut meta = entry.metadata()?.permissions();
-                        meta.set_readonly(false);
-                        fs::set_permissions(&path, meta)?;
-                        fs::remove_file(&path)
-                    } else {
-                        Err(e)
-                    }
-                })?;
-            }
-        }
-        fs::remove_dir(path)
-    }
 }
 
 struct ProcArgs {
diff --git a/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest/run_make.rs b/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest/run_make.rs
index 85ade5b727a3b..ee7aed2a39c15 100644
--- a/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest/run_make.rs
+++ b/src/tools/compiletest/src/runtest/run_make.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ use std::path::Path;
 use std::process::{Command, Output, Stdio};
 use std::{env, fs};
 
+use build_helper::fs::{ignore_not_found, recursive_remove};
+
 use super::{ProcRes, TestCx, disable_error_reporting};
 use crate::util::{copy_dir_all, dylib_env_var};
 
@@ -27,9 +29,8 @@ impl TestCx<'_> {
         // are hopefully going away, it seems safer to leave this perilous code
         // as-is until it can all be deleted.
         let tmpdir = cwd.join(self.output_base_name());
-        if tmpdir.exists() {
-            self.aggressive_rm_rf(&tmpdir).unwrap();
-        }
+        ignore_not_found(|| recursive_remove(&tmpdir)).unwrap();
+
         fs::create_dir_all(&tmpdir).unwrap();
 
         let host = &self.config.host;
@@ -218,9 +219,8 @@ impl TestCx<'_> {
         //
         // This setup intentionally diverges from legacy Makefile run-make tests.
         let base_dir = self.output_base_dir();
-        if base_dir.exists() {
-            self.aggressive_rm_rf(&base_dir).unwrap();
-        }
+        ignore_not_found(|| recursive_remove(&base_dir)).unwrap();
+
         let rmake_out_dir = base_dir.join("rmake_out");
         fs::create_dir_all(&rmake_out_dir).unwrap();