From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261346AbVBJTJB (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:09:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261347AbVBJTHp (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:07:45 -0500 Received: from smtp07.web.de ([217.72.192.225]:52408 "EHLO smtp07.web.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261342AbVBJTHg (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:07:36 -0500 Message-ID: <420BB0F6.8030405@web.de> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:07:34 +0100 From: Michael Renzmann User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050205) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)? References: <4209C71F.9040102@web.de> <35297.194.237.142.7.1107985448.squirrel@194.237.142.7> <420B07FA.7050309@web.de> <20050210184218.GA9338@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20050210184218.GA9338@mars.ravnborg.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>otaku@gimli linux-2.6.10 $ make kernelrelease >>make: *** No rule to make target `kernelrelease'. Stop. > I works with the 2.6 kernel. As Andreas Gruenbacher pointed out, this feature has been implemented just about 8 weeks ago. He also gave the following snippet as a backward compatible solution: === cut === echo -e 'foo:\n\t@echo $(KERNELRELEASE)\ninclude Makefile' \ | make -f- === cut === This works fine. Thanks to everyone for your tips and answers. Bye, Mike