Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:39:40 +0300 | From | Boaz Harrosh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, v2] kbuild: Improve version string logic - two for the price of one - No thanks |
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On 06/08/2010 09:34 AM, Paul Mundt wrote: > 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.
OK That one is actually a solution. I'll try that ASAP. If it works as expected it's perfect. Even better than before
Thanks Boaz
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