From: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
To: Michael Renzmann <mrenzmann@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)?
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:22:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4209C82A.3090502@ens-lyon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4209C71F.9040102@web.de>
Michael Renzmann a écrit :
> Then we started to grep VERSION, PATCHLEVEL, SUBLEVEL and EXTRAVERSION
> from the kernel's Makefile. This failed, since some distributors seem to
> use shell commands for at least one of those. Example from SuSE 9.1:
> === cut ===
> VERSION = 2
> PATCHLEVEL = 6
> SUBLEVEL = 5
> EXTRAVERSION = -$(shell echo $(CONFIG_RELEASE)-$(CONFIG_CFGNAME))
> === cut ===
>
> Newer kernels also allow to set CONFIG_LOCALVERSION in .config.
And you may also set some "localversion*" files in the source directory.
Their contents will be added too.
Brice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-09 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-09 8:17 How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)? Michael Renzmann
2005-02-09 8:22 ` Brice Goglin [this message]
2005-02-09 9:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-09 21:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-02-10 7:06 ` Michael Renzmann
[not found] ` <200502100854.37606.agruen@suse.de>
2005-02-10 8:29 ` Michael Renzmann
2005-02-10 18:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-02-10 19:07 ` Michael Renzmann
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