Hi Masahiro, I noticed that "install" seems to be no longer PHONY, or at least if I have a file/directory called install then the build doesn't run. eg: $ touch install $ make install make: 'install' is up to date. $ rm install $ make install LDS arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr In the past the presence of an install file/directory didn't have any affect. It seems this changed in: d79424137a73 ("kbuild: do not update config when running install targets") Was that expected? cheers