linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix distclean with Makefile.postlink

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Date:   Mon, 08 May 2017 21:57:48 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Mircea Pop <mircea.pop@....com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix distclean with Makefile.postlink

Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com> writes:

> Makefile.postlink always includes include/config/auto.conf, however
> this file is not present in a clean kernel tree, causing make to fail:
>
> arch/powerpc/Makefile.postlink:10: include/config/auto.conf: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf'.  Stop.
> make: *** [vmlinuxclean] Error 2
>
> Change the inclusion such that file not being found does not trigger
> an error.
>
> Fixes: f188d0524d7e ("powerpc: Use the new post-link pass to check relocations")

I can't reproduce this. What exact steps are you doing? And what version
of Make?

cheers