From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:47965 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751229AbZBOPKp (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:10:45 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:12:36 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: one more oldconfig quirk in 2.6.29-rc4 Message-ID: <20090215151236.GB673@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20090211085020.GA15967@basil.nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090211085020.GA15967@basil.nowhere.org> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:50:20AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I changed one option manually in a .config file in a separate > objdir requiring make oldconfig. Then I ran make (without > oldconfig) and got > > make[4]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1 > make[3]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2 > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf', needed by `include/config/kernel.release'. Stop. > make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > In the past make would always run oldconfig automatically. I tried to reproduce it with no luck :-( my steps: mkdir ../andi cp ../andi cd ../andi vi .config < removed all security options to fore a config run > make -C ../kfixes.git O=$PWD # worked as expected rm -rf include/config/* vi .config < removed all security options to fore a config run > make -C ../kfixes.git O=$PWD # worked as expected If this is reproducealbe then please try to post the output of a run with V=1. Sam