diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl.inc b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl.inc
index e5cc869cb9..bdce412162 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl.inc
@@ -27,3 +27,5 @@ ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv4 = "arm"
 
 # Enable out of tree build
 B = "${WORKDIR}/build"
+
+do_configure[cleandirs] = "${B}"