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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild: menuconfig with O=<dir> creates empty include/config in base
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 13:17:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100526131725.49bd41cd.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100526065611.GD4720@trinity.fluff.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...

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~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-26 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26  6:56 kbuild: menuconfig with O=<dir> creates empty include/config in base Ben Dooks
2010-05-26 20:17 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]

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