@@ -757,6 +757,10 @@ ifdef may-sync-config
# because some architectures define CROSS_COMPILE there.
include include/config/auto.conf.cmd
+ifeq (,$(findstring B,$(firstword -$(MAKEFLAGS))))
+# This is a dummy target, only meant as a help for the user invoking make.
+# We don't want it to take effect when running 'make --always-make', since
+# that renders the --always-make option effectively useless.
$(KCONFIG_CONFIG):
@echo >&2 '***'
@echo >&2 '*** Configuration file "$@" not found!'
@@ -765,6 +769,7 @@ $(KCONFIG_CONFIG):
@echo >&2 '*** "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig").'
@echo >&2 '***'
@/bin/false
+endif
# The actual configuration files used during the build are stored in
# include/generated/ and include/config/. Update them if .config is newer than
Before this patch, using 'make --always-make' would always result in the error message about the missing .config being displayed. Detect the -B/--always-make flag and leave this rule out, which allows the rest of the build to proceed. See [1] for an explanation of this particular construction. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Testing-Flags Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> --- Makefile | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)