On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 04:33:38PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > I'm unable to build the kernel using the O=path/to/out option. Am I > doing something brain dead? > > $ cd $KERNEL > $ make mrproper > $ cp path/to/valid/config/file .config All you are missing here is something like `make defconfig` (or olddefconfig or nconfig etc.) and you should be set; nothing brain dead here. You can read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst for more information about these targets, but mostly the reason for this is because the available configurations change just like the rest of the kernel. Bad Things™ would happen if .config wasn't updated to reflect these changes. -- Cheers, Joey Pabalinas
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