linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: fix missing dash when using make LOCALVERSION=xxx

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:46:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: fix missing dash when using make
 LOCALVERSION=xxx

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Cong Wang wrote:

> But in your patch description, you said:
> 
>     Without CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO, "make" results in v2.6.32-rc4+
>     unless the repository is at the Linux v2.6.32-rc4 commit (in which
>     case the version would be v2.6.32-rc4).  If "make LOCALVERSION=kbuild"
>     were used, it results in v2.6.32-rc4-kbuild.
> 
> So, shouldn't that be "make LOCALVERSION=-kbuild"?
> 

Yup, that's what it should have said.  That doesn't mean that we need to 
change the long-standing behavior of LOCALVERSION= to add an implied `-', 
though.
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