On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:50:20AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I changed one option manually in a .config file in a separate > objdir requiring make oldconfig. Then I ran make (without > oldconfig) and got > > make[4]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1 > make[3]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2 > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf', needed by `include/config/kernel.release'. Stop. > make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > In the past make would always run oldconfig automatically. I tried to reproduce it with no luck :-( my steps: mkdir ../andi cp <a .config from somewhere> ../andi cd ../andi vi .config < removed all security options to fore a config run > make -C ../kfixes.git O=$PWD # worked as expected rm -rf include/config/* vi .config < removed all security options to fore a config run > make -C ../kfixes.git O=$PWD # worked as expected If this is reproducealbe then please try to post the output of a run with V=1. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html