The scripts I use for my kernel testing rely on the targz-pkg make target. After updating to 3.16-rc1 my scripts started failing. In scripts/package/buildtar: tmpdir="${objtree}/tar-install" tarball="${objtree}/linux-${KERNELRELEASE}-${ARCH}.tar" .. # # Create the tarball # ( cd "${tmpdir}" opts= if tar --owner=root --group=root --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then opts="--owner=root --group=root" fi tar cf - boot/* lib/* $opts | ${compress} > "${tarball}${file_ext}" ) After 7e1c04779efd511 "kbuild: Use relative path for $(objtree)", that's a relative instead of absolute path so the tarball's dumped by default into tmpdir, not what was intended. The changelog there says The main Makefile sets its working directory to the object tree and never changes it again. Therefore, we can use '.' instead of the absolute path. But the main Makefile also exports objtree, and a quick grep suggests lots of other uses outside the main Makefile. --b. -- 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