Actually having a command line of 'mak' isn't necessary. There just seems to be a problem with make menuconfig inserting a load of rubbish about parallel ports in the command line if it is blank. Luckily 'mak' doesn't seem to cause any problems and isn't empty.

I think sometime I must have started typing 'make zImage' after typing 'make oldconfig' and it creeped into the standard .config file. Whoops.

There's no harm in it though.

In summary, try this:

cp arch/arm/def-configs/empeg .config
make oldconfig
(Press enter if it asks you for a command line)
make zImage


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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)