On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 09:27 +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > Dne 15.10.2015 v 08:05 Michael Ellerman napsal(a): > > My recent commit d2036f30cfe1 ("scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow > > KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target"), contained a bug in that when it > > checks if KBUILD_DEFCONFIG is a file it forgets to prepend $(srctree) to > > the path. > > > > This causes the build to fail when building out of tree (with O=), and > > when the value of KBUILD_DEFCONFIG is 'defconfig'. In that case we will > > fail to find the 'defconfig' file, because we look in the build > > directory not $(srctree), and so we will call Make again with > > 'defconfig' as the target. From there we loop infinitely calling 'make > > defconfig' again and again. > > > > The fix is simple, we need to look for the file under $(srctree). > > > > Fixes: d2036f30cfe1 ("scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target") > > Reported-by: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx> > > I could have spotted it myself :-/. It was pretty easy to miss in the diff, especially as the kconfig invocation doesn't use $(srctree). I should have noticed it in my testing, but it didn't actually break powerpc, so the only clue was that the message says "based on target". Anyway fixed now hopefully. cheers -- 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