make[2]: *** No rule to make target `.config', needed by `arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds'

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 04:24:57PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> when using the environment variable KCONFIG_CONFIG
> 
> This comes from:
> 
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> 
> $(obj)/vmlinux.lds: $(obj)/vmlinux.lds.in arch/arm/boot/Makefile .config
> 	@sed "$(SEDFLAGS)" < $< > $@
> 
> My immediate feel is that changing that .config for $(KCONFIG_CONFIG)
> ought to fix the problem. Is this right or am I missing something?

Does this work with relative pathnames, such as:

make ARCH=arm KCONFIG_CONFIG=my_config zImage

?