Re: [PATCH] kbuild: allow "make" targets 'versioncheck' and 'includecheck' withoug .config file

[Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 03:54:42PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Top-level Makefile targets 'versioncheck' and 'includecheck' don't
> need a configured kernel (i.e., don't need a .config file), so add
> them the the list of "no-dot-config-targets".
> This eliminates the 'make' error:
> 
> ***
> *** Configuration file ".config" not found!
> ***
> *** Please run some configurator (e.g. "make oldconfig" or
> *** "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig").
> ***
> Makefile:759: include/config/auto.conf.cmd: No such file or directory
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
> ---

I like that change, works for me as expected.  Possibly you might want
to fix the commit subject typo (withoug -> without).

Regards,
Nicolas


> Fixes: I couldn't determine this.
> 
>  Makefile |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- linux-next-20210811.orig/Makefile
> +++ linux-next-20210811/Makefile
> @@ -274,7 +274,8 @@ no-dot-config-targets := $(clean-targets
>  			 cscope gtags TAGS tags help% %docs check% coccicheck \
>  			 $(version_h) headers headers_% archheaders archscripts \
>  			 %asm-generic kernelversion %src-pkg dt_binding_check \
> -			 outputmakefile rustfmt rustfmtcheck
> +			 outputmakefile rustfmt rustfmtcheck \
> +			 versioncheck includecheck
>  # Installation targets should not require compiler. Unfortunately, vdso_install
>  # is an exception where build artifacts may be updated. This must be fixed.
>  no-compiler-targets := $(no-dot-config-targets) install dtbs_install \