From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "A. Nolson" <alohanono@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Weird strings in kernel uname when cross-compiling
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 06:44:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204064414.3b72ba91@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4937C1D1.5010002@gmail.com>
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:41:05 +0100
"A. Nolson" <alohanono@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> anybody knows why every time I cross-compile my kernel (Denx 4.2
> cross-compiling chain ) I get an extra string in my vermagic like this
>
> 2.6.24-rc3-gd7ed933b-dirty
>
> when my kernel's ( secretlabs 2.6.24-rc3) makefile has this parameters:
>
> VERSION = 2
> PATCHLEVEL = 6
> SUBLEVEL = 24
> EXTRAVERSION = -rc3
>
> (So no -gd7ed933b-dirty anywhere... )
>
> Having that is a bit annoying when I try to natively compile modules,
> so I need to workaround it by copying that extra string into my other
> Makefiles. Anybody knows how to get rid of it?
It gets added on if you are building from a git repository and you have
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO set. Disable that and it should go away.
(BTW, a quick grep in the top level Makefile would have told you all
that.)
josh
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 11:41 Weird strings in kernel uname when cross-compiling A. Nolson
2008-12-04 11:44 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-12-04 16:01 ` Wolfgang Denk
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