Maybe wrong way to do it, just plain "make i386_defconfig". I'm aware of ARCH=, but never needed to specify it for x86 targets.
* Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After the commit 1d0e12fd3a84 ("x86/defconfigs: Refresh defconfig files")
32-bit builds using defconfig become broken because on x86_64 build host
with no ARCH provided the default behaviour is to assume 64-bit independently
on the configuration file name. The crucial part is CONFIG_64BIT option
that used to be explicit. Let restore the latter option in order to unbreak
32-bit builds.
So exactly which build method broke due to this? The typical way to do a defconfig build is:
make ARCH=i386 defconfig
which still works fine AFAICS.