Cleaning targets: clean - Remove most generated files but keep the config and enough build support to build external modules mrproper - Remove all generated files + config + various backup files distclean - mrproper + remove editor backup and patch files
Configuration targets: config - Update current config utilising a line-oriented program nconfig - Update current config utilising a ncurses menu based program menuconfig - Update current config utilising a menu based program xconfig - Update current config utilising a Qt based front-end gconfig - Update current config utilising a GTK+ based front-end oldconfig - Update current config utilising a provided .config as base localmodconfig - Update current config disabling modules not loaded localyesconfig - Update current config converting local mods to core defconfig - New config with default from ARCH supplied defconfig savedefconfig - Save current config as ./defconfig (minimal config) allnoconfig - New config where all options are answered with no allyesconfig - New config where all options are accepted with yes allmodconfig - New config selecting modules when possible alldefconfig - New config with all symbols set to default randconfig - New config with random answer to all options listnewconfig - List new options olddefconfig - Same as oldconfig but sets new symbols to their default value without prompting kvmconfig - Enable additional options for kvm guest kernel support xenconfig - Enable additional options for xen dom0 and guest kernel support tinyconfig - Configure the tiniest possible kernel testconfig - Run Kconfig unit tests (requires python3 and pytest)
Other generic targets: all - Build all targets marked with [*] * vmlinux - Build the bare kernel * modules - Build all modules modules_install - Install all modules to INSTALL_MOD_PATH (default: /) dir/ - Build all files in dir and below dir/file.[ois] - Build specified target only dir/file.ll - Build the LLVM assembly file (requires compiler support for LLVM assembly generation) dir/file.lst - Build specified mixed source/assembly target only (requires a recent binutils and recent build (System.map)) dir/file.ko - Build module including final link modules_prepare - Set up for building external modules tags/TAGS - Generate tags file for editors cscope - Generate cscope index gtags - Generate GNU GLOBAL index kernelrelease - Output the release version string (use with make -s) kernelversion - Output the version stored in Makefile (use with make -s) image_name - Output the image name (use with make -s) headers_install - Install sanitised kernel headers to INSTALL_HDR_PATH (default: ./usr)
Static analysers: checkstack - Generate a list of stack hogs namespacecheck - Name space analysis on compiled kernel versioncheck - Sanity check on version.h usage includecheck - Check for duplicate included header files export_report - List the usages of all exported symbols headerdep - Detect inclusion cycles in headers coccicheck - Check with Coccinelle
Tools: nsdeps - Generate missing symbol namespace dependencies
Kernel selftest: kselftest - Build and run kernel selftest (run as root) Build, install, and boot kernel before running kselftest on it kselftest-clean - Remove all generated kselftest files kselftest-merge - Merge all the config dependencies of kselftest to existing .config.
Userspace tools targets: use "make tools/help" or "cd tools; make help"
Kernel packaging: rpm-pkg - Build both source and binary RPM kernel packages binrpm-pkg - Build only the binary kernel RPM package deb-pkg - Build both source and binary deb kernel packages bindeb-pkg - Build only the binary kernel deb package snap-pkg - Build only the binary kernel snap package (will connect to external hosts) tar-pkg - Build the kernel as an uncompressed tarball targz-pkg - Build the kernel as a gzip compressed tarball tarbz2-pkg - Build the kernel as a bzip2 compressed tarball tarxz-pkg - Build the kernel as a xz compressed tarball perf-tar-src-pkg - Build perf-5.4.100.tar source tarball perf-targz-src-pkg - Build perf-5.4.100.tar.gz source tarball perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-5.4.100.tar.bz2 source tarball perf-tarxz-src-pkg - Build perf-5.4.100.tar.xz source tarball
Documentation targets: Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats from ReST: htmldocs - HTML latexdocs - LaTeX pdfdocs - PDF epubdocs - EPUB xmldocs - XML linkcheckdocs - check for broken external links (will connect to external hosts) refcheckdocs - check for references to non-existing files under Documentation cleandocs - clean all generated files
make SPHINXDIRS="s1 s2" [target] Generate only docs of folder s1, s2 valid values for SPHINXDIRS are:
make SPHINX_CONF={conf-file} [target] use *additional* sphinx-build configuration. This is e.g. useful to build with nit-picking config.
Default location for the generated documents is Documentation/output
Architecture specific targets (x86): * bzImage - Compressed kernel image (arch/x86/boot/bzImage) install - Install kernel using (your) ~/bin/installkernel or (distribution) /sbin/installkernel or install to $(INSTALL_PATH) and run lilo fdimage - Create 1.4MB boot floppy image (arch/x86/boot/fdimage) fdimage144 - Create 1.4MB boot floppy image (arch/x86/boot/fdimage) fdimage288 - Create 2.8MB boot floppy image (arch/x86/boot/fdimage) isoimage - Create a boot CD-ROM image (arch/x86/boot/image.iso) bzdisk/fdimage*/isoimage also accept: FDARGS="..." arguments for the booted kernel FDINITRD=file initrd for the booted kernel
i386_defconfig - Build for i386 ubuntu_defconfig - Build for ubuntu x86_64_defconfig - Build for x86_64
make V=0|1 [targets] 0 => quiet build (default), 1 => verbose build make V=2 [targets] 2 => give reason for rebuild of target make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in"dir", including .config make C=1 [targets] Check re-compiled c source with $CHECK (sparse by default) make C=2 [targets] Force check of all c source with $CHECK make RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 [targets] Warn about ignored mcount sections make W=n [targets] Enable extra build checks, n=1,2,3 where 1: warnings which may be relevant and do not occur too often 2: warnings which occur quite often but may still be relevant 3: more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored Multiple levels can be combined with W=12 or W=123