It appears the for-5.3 branch had some broken commits pulled in at 1c7c3237c0cc4ad3c7b0df458290c8e2a652f178 ("Merge tag 'v5.2-rc1' into asoc-5.3 ")
building for the pixelbook I get the following build errors:
Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext make[3]: *** [/mnt/host/source/src/third_party/kernel/v4.14/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:130: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs] Error 1 make[3]: *** Deleting file 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs'
Mainline is still broken as well. Not sure how to propagate this up to the responsible parties, figured I would start a discussion here first. I am also open to suggestions if there is a chance I am missing something.
Looks like some leftover interfering the build. Try to cleanup your work directory, e.g. make distclean and rebuild.
works for me with the attached .config. Likely an environment problem.