Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:34:19 +0900 | From | Paul Mundt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, v2] kbuild: Improve version string logic - two for the price of one - No thanks |
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:18:42PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > > >> I already have my: > > >> VERSION = 2 > > >> PATCHLEVEL = 6 > > >> SUBLEVEL = 35 > > >> -EXTRAVERSION = -rc2 > > >> +EXTRAVERSION = -rc2-my_tree > > >> > > > > > > You shouldn't be using EXTRAVERSION for this purpose, you should be > > > passing LOCALVERSION=my_tree to make. > > > > > > > That will not work because the way I run make is out of my control. Every > > one in the working group has his system. The Makefile is part of the > > public git tree, so every one will get the same identification without > > any confusion with Vanilla kernel, or what was compiled. > > > > If everyone using that tree wants the same version string for that kernel, > use CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-my_tree" in your .config and use "make > LOCALVERSION=". > Or just distribute a localversion-my_tree file in the top-level directory like other trees do. This doesn't strike me as a particularly significant problem.
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