linux-kernel - Re: kbuild: menuconfig with O=<dir> creates empty include/config in base

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Message-Id: <20100526131725.49bd41cd.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 13:17:25 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild: menuconfig with O=<dir> creates empty include/config in
 base

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
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