From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756873Ab0EZURs (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2010 16:17:48 -0400 Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:19871 "EHLO rcsinet10.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751547Ab0EZURr (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2010 16:17:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 13:17:25 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Ben Dooks Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kbuild: menuconfig with O= creates empty include/config in base Message-Id: <20100526131725.49bd41cd.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20100526065611.GD4720@trinity.fluff.org> References: <20100526065611.GD4720@trinity.fluff.org> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-Source-IP: rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.4BFD81DF.015C:SCFMA4539811,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 May 2010 07:56:11 +0100 Ben Dooks wrote: > When doing "make O=test menuconfig" the base kernel directory picks up > a new empty directory include/config which stops further "make O=temp" > builds as the make system thinks the base directory is not clean. > > I've had a look, but it is not easy to see where this is hapening. > > So far only menuconfig seems to have triggered it, xconfig seems to work. I cannot reproduce this problem. Can you provide more complete steps to make it happen? I've had similar problems occasionally but I haven't been able to track them down... --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***