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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>
Cc: zippel@linux-m68k.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION in setlocalversion
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:58:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAD327B.4030904@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikYuYVvXiHvi_kr2H7n29k=veThtw@mail.gmail.com>

On 19.4.2011 08:42, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> In scripts/setlocalversion under linux kernel tree, the scripts seems
> a little strange.
[...]
>         # append a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean
>         # annotated or signed tagged state (as git describe only
>         # looks at signed or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s) and
>         # LOCALVERSION= is not specified
>         if test "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set"; then
>                 scm=$(scm_version --short)
>                 res="$res${scm:++}"
>         fi
> fi
> 
> LOCALVERSION isn't assigned in any place. Only CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
> can be assigned in .config file.
> Why do we need to check LOCALVERSION at here?

It can be set on the commandline:

make LOCALVERSION=something

Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-19  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-19  6:42 LOCALVERSION in setlocalversion Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-19  6:58 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2011-04-19  7:35   ` Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-19  8:03     ` Michal Marek

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