I want to automate a Linux build but eventually get to a point where I need to run what seems to be a very manual step: `make menuconfig`. This seems to synchronize configs between the OS and kernel configs?

```
cp git-tracked-config .config
make defconfig 
make menuconfig # <- how to automate/script this?
make V=s

```

Basically, how can I remove the call to `make menuconfig` for a build script?

As an aside, this is in reaction to a build error that seems to happen when I run without ever calling make menuconfig:

```
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf', needed by `include/config/kernel.release'.  Stop.

```

Which seems to be there is a missing rule in a makefile perhaps because the makefile itself does NOT exist or the makefile has not been generated/morphed to contain that rule but that is a separate question.

There could be a smarter way to approach this alltogether. Are there other configs that I'm not tracking but should (e.g. oldconfig)?