Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:49:02 +0100 | From | David Vrabel <> | Subject | Re: Versioning of tree |
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Ryan Anderson wrote: > > Well, here's a patch that adds -BKxxxxxxxx to LOCALVERSION when a > top-level BitKeeper tree is detected. > [...] > LOCALVERSION = $(subst $(space),, \ > $(shell cat /dev/null $(localversion-files)) \ > + $(subst ",,$(localversion-bk)) \
Surely there's no need for this? Can't the script spit out an appropriate localversion* file instead?
Tools like Debian's make-kpkg have to work out the kernel version (for use in the package name etc.) and it would be preferable if the method for generating the version didn't change too often.
David Vrabel -- David Vrabel, Design Engineer
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