vmlinux-objs-y is added to targets, which currently means that the EFI stub gets added to the targets as well. It shouldn't be added since it is built elsewhere. This confuses Makefile.build which interprets the EFI stub as a target $(obj)/$(objtree)/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a and will create drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/ underneath arch/x86/boot/compressed, to hold this supposed target, if building out-of-tree. [0] Fix this by pulling the stub out of vmlinux-objs-y into efi-obj-y. [0] See scripts/Makefile.build near the end: # Create directories for object files if they do not exist Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile index 7619742f91c9..5a828fde7a42 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ endif vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_ACPI) += $(obj)/acpi.o -vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_EFI_STUB) += $(objtree)/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_EFI_MIXED) += $(obj)/efi_thunk_$(BITS).o +efi-obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_STUB) = $(objtree)/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a # The compressed kernel is built with -fPIC/-fPIE so that a boot loader # can place it anywhere in memory and it will still run. However, since @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ endef quiet_cmd_check-and-link-vmlinux = LD $@ cmd_check-and-link-vmlinux = $(cmd_check_data_rel); $(cmd_ld) -$(obj)/vmlinux: $(vmlinux-objs-y) FORCE +$(obj)/vmlinux: $(vmlinux-objs-y) $(efi-obj-y) FORCE $(call if_changed,check-and-link-vmlinux) OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinux.bin := -R .comment -S -- 2.26.2