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From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>
Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] build: allow a downstream suffix in the version shown during boot
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:31:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220411153128.GA1167777@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yi3KpUW5Hg55ezTq@pegase>

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On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 11:42:45AM +0100, Nicolas Boulenguez wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-February/474887.html got
> no answer, probably because it is trivial and has been lost among more
> important topics, so I am submitting it again.
> 
> It is convenient for redistributors to add a build number to the
> U-boot source version, which is displayed at boot and useful to know
> if a device has been successfully updated, to triage bugs and so on.
> 
> For example, Debian adds '+dfsg-N' where N changes with each release
> of a .deb package.
> 
> Author: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
> Author: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>
> Signed-By: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>
> 
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-fno-PIE)
>  
>  # Read UBOOTRELEASE from include/config/uboot.release (if it exists)
>  UBOOTRELEASE = $(shell cat include/config/uboot.release 2> /dev/null)
> -UBOOTVERSION = $(VERSION)$(if $(PATCHLEVEL),.$(PATCHLEVEL)$(if $(SUBLEVEL),.$(SUBLEVEL)))$(EXTRAVERSION)
> +UBOOTVERSION = $(VERSION)$(if $(PATCHLEVEL),.$(PATCHLEVEL)$(if $(SUBLEVEL),.$(SUBLEVEL)))$(EXTRAVERSION)$(BUILD_VERSION)
>  
>  export VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL UBOOTRELEASE UBOOTVERSION
>  export ARCH CPU BOARD VENDOR SOC CPUDIR BOARDDIR
> --- a/doc/build/gcc.rst
> +++ b/doc/build/gcc.rst
> @@ -151,6 +151,11 @@
>  Note that the :doc:`tools` are always built with the included version of libfdt
>  so it is not possible to build U-Boot tools with a system libfdt, at present.
>  
> +If you are modifying the upstream sources, please make this visible
> +at boot time by defining the BUILD_VERSION version suffix.
> +
> +* BUILD_VERSION=+<vendor><build number><...>
> +
>  Other build targets
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Why do you need this, instead of just using CONFIG_LOCALVERSION?  What
do you do for linux kernel builds, which are also Kbuild based?  Thanks.

-- 
Tom

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-11 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-13 10:42 [PATCH] build: allow a downstream suffix in the version shown during boot Nicolas Boulenguez
2022-04-11 15:31 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2022-04-13 11:59   ` Nicolas Boulenguez
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2022-02-10 10:54 Nicolas Boulenguez

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