On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 20:58 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote:
> 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.
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> 
> 

I've just try linux-5.0.16 with no issue.
root@lfs08:/sources$ tar -xf linux-5.0.16.tar.xz 
root@lfs08:/sources$ cd linux-5.0.16
root@lfs08:/sources/linux-5.0.16$ make mrproper
root@lfs08:/sources/linux-5.0.16$ ls -la .config
ls: cannot access '.config': No such file or directory

Regards,
Wayne.

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