Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - do not generate unneeded top-level built-in.a

 - let git ignore O= directory entirely

 - optimize scripts/kallsyms slightly

 - exclude DWARF info from *.s regardless of config options

 - fix GCC toolchain search path for Clang to prepare ld.lld support

 - do not generate modules.order when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - simplify single target rules and remove VPATH for external module
   build

 - allow to add optional flags to dpkg-buildpackage when building
   deb-pkg

 - move some compiler option tests from Makefile to Kconfig

 - various Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits)
  kbuild: remove scripts/basic/% build target
  kbuild: use -Werror=implicit-... instead of -Werror-implicit-...
  kbuild: clean up scripts/gcc-version.sh
  kbuild: remove cc-version macro
  kbuild: update comment block of scripts/clang-version.sh
  kbuild: remove commented-out INITRD_COMPRESS
  kbuild: move -gsplit-dwarf, -gdwarf-4 option tests to Kconfig
  kbuild: [bin]deb-pkg: add DPKG_FLAGS variable
  kbuild: move ".config not found!" message from Kconfig to Makefile
  kbuild: invoke syncconfig if include/config/auto.conf.cmd is missing
  kbuild: simplify single target rules
  kbuild: remove empty rules for makefiles
  kbuild: make -r/-R effective in top Makefile for old Make versions
  kbuild: move tools_silent to a more relevant place
  kbuild: compute false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized cases in Kconfig
  kbuild: refactor cc-cross-prefix implementation
  kbuild: hardcode genksyms path and remove GENKSYMS variable
  scripts/gdb: refactor rules for symlink creation
  kbuild: create symlink to vmlinux-gdb.py in scripts_gdb target
  scripts/gdb: do not descend into scripts/gdb from scripts
  ...

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
index da89ef788a8d..ef3678c24bab 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
@@ -488,7 +488,6 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
         const char *progname = av[0];
         int opt;
         const char *name, *defconfig_file = NULL /* gcc uninit */;
-        struct stat tmpstat;
         int no_conf_write = 0;
 
         tty_stdio = isatty(0) && isatty(1);
@@ -560,18 +559,6 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
         name = av[optind];
         conf_parse(name);
         //zconfdump(stdout);
-        if (sync_kconfig) {
-                name = conf_get_configname();
-                if (stat(name, &tmpstat)) {
-                        fprintf(stderr, "***\n"
-                                "*** Configuration file \"%s\" not found!\n"
-                                "***\n"
-                                "*** Please run some configurator (e.g. \"make oldconfig\" or\n"
-                                "*** \"make menuconfig\" or \"make xconfig\").\n"
-                                "***\n", name);
-                        exit(1);
-                }
-        }
 
         switch (input_mode) {
         case defconfig: