kbuild (was Re: Versioning of tree)

Jeff Garzik
2004-10-21T23:17:10Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We already have the concept of "localversion*" files that get appended to
> the build.[...]

Just to tangent a bit... I've been meaning to throw out a public kudos
to Sam, Kai, Roman and the other kbuild/kconfig hackers. The 2.6 kbuild
and kconfig system is a _huge_ improvement over 2.4.x.

These days I use
echo "-sataN" > localversion
heavily, and it's been quite helpful. The separation of src/obj
directories, the default verbosity level, 'make allyesconfig', and the
elimination of recursive Makefile invocations are just some of the
things that stick out as positive improvements that impact me on a daily
basis.

Thanks guys!

Jeff