On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 02:36:04PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> One more thing: I had to add 'flex' and 'bison' as native-inputs because
> the build system in 4.16 now concludes that they need to be re-run for
> some reason.  This could perhaps be avoided by adding a phase to touch
> the generated files, but I didn't try it.

I noticed this too while building 4.16 with Debian's tooling (`make
bindeb-pkg`).

> Anyway, here are the patches.  Test reports encouraged.

Thanks, I'm testing this on x86_64 (it's what I have access to).

I noticed this warning at the beginning of the build phase:

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starting phase `build'
scripts/kconfig/conf  --silentoldconfig Kconfig
Makefile:976: "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel"
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The warning goes away when elfutils is available in the build
environment.