On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 5/15/19 2:54 AM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > I was looking at the headers for 5.0.16 to see what had changed > > since 5.0.9. Began by following the book and running 'make > > mrproper', but on 5.0.16 it error'd, complaining there was no > > .config. Running 'make defconfig' solved that. > > > > This is presumably true for at least 5.0.15, maybe for something a > > little earlier. It's caused by the 'cleanups' in the kbuild system, > > not sure if all of 5.1 is affected, or only the latest versions > > (i.e. I suspect the changes to kbuild might be in 5.2 and already > > back-ported). > > Does not seem to be true for linux-5.1.2. > > $ cd linux-5.1.2 > $ make mrproper > $ ls .config > ls: cannot access '.config': No such file or directory > I agree with your conclusion for 5.1.2, but I've no idea if in 5.0.16 .config was present after 'make mrproper' : the problem was that I could not run 'make mrproper' without a .config (i.e. after freshly patching 5.0 to 5.0.16).
Also, the removal of ..install.cmd seemed superfluous, there did not seem to be anything with a name like that. ĸen -- Before the universe began, there was a sound. It went: "One, two, ONE, two, three, four" [...] The cataclysmic power chord that followed was the creation of time and space and matter and it does Not Fade Away. - wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Music_With_Rocks_In -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
