Re: kbuild: menuconfig with O=<dir> creates empty include/config inbase

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed May 26 2010 - 16:17:55 EST


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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