>> It appears the for-5.3 branch had some broken commits pulled in at
>> 1c7c3237c0cc4ad3c7b0df458290c8e2a652f178 ("Merge tag 'v5.2-rc1' into
>> asoc-5.3 ")
>>
>> building for the pixelbook I get the following build errors:
>>
>> Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext
>> make[3]: *** [/mnt/host/source/src/third_party/kernel/v4.14/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:130:
>> arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs] Error 1
>> make[3]: *** Deleting file 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs'
>>
>> Mainline is still broken as well. Not sure how to propagate this up to
>> the responsible parties, figured I would start a discussion here
>> first. I am also open to suggestions if there is a chance I am missing
>> something.
> 
> Looks like some leftover interfering the build.
> Try to cleanup your work directory, e.g. make distclean and rebuild.

works for me with the attached .config.
Likely an environment problem.