'make kernelrelease' depends on CONFIG_LOCALVERSION(_AUTO), but for the same reason as install targets, we do not want to update the configuration just for printing the kernelrelease string.
This is likely to happen when you compiled the kernel with CROSS_COMPILE, but forget to pass it to 'make kernelrelease'. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> --- Makefile | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index f0663c8..c258937 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -225,7 +225,8 @@ no-dot-config-targets := $(clean-targets) \ cscope gtags TAGS tags help% %docs check% coccicheck \ $(version_h) headers_% archheaders archscripts \ kernelversion %src-pkg -no-sync-config-targets := $(no-dot-config-targets) install %install +no-sync-config-targets := $(no-dot-config-targets) install %install \ + kernelrelease config-targets := 0 mixed-targets := 0 -- 2.7.4