Hi all, After merging the kbuild tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allnoconfig) failed like this: make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'scripts/mod/empty.o', needed by '__build'. Caused by commit 624a912f84bc ("kbuild: detect objtool changes correctly and remove .SECONDEXPANSION") (at least, reverting that commit fixes it) I use a separate object directory and, in this case, it is newly created. A build with V=1 and -s removed (and no -j) gives this around the failure: make -f /home/sfr/next/next/scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/mod make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'scripts/mod/empty.o', needed by '__build'. Stop. make[1]: *** [/home/sfr/next/next/Makefile:1309: prepare0] Error 2 I have reverted that commit for today. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell