From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: what is the purpose of "LOCALVERSION" variable in scripts/setlocalversion?
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 07:01:27 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1604090653240.4016@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
i was perusing "scripts/setlocalversion" to see the variations for
setting the kernel version, and i ran across this snippet:
# CONFIG_LOCALVERSION and LOCALVERSION (if set)
res="${res}${CONFIG_LOCALVERSION}${LOCALVERSION}"
i'm well aware of the kernel *config* option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION, but
i was unaware of the apparently independent variable "LOCALVERSION"
which is used in that assignment.
there's precious little mention of that variable ... under what
circumstances does one set it? is it meant to be set in the user's
environment and simply inherited that way? is anyone here using it on
a regular basis?
rday
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2016-04-09 11:17 ` what is the purpose of "LOCALVERSION" variable in scripts/setlocalversion? Chinmay V S
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