linux-kernel - Re: LOCALVERSION in setlocalversion

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Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:58:03 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...il.com>
Cc:	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION in setlocalversion

On 19.4.2011 08:42, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> In scripts/setlocalversion under linux kernel tree, the scripts seems
> a little strange.
[...]
>         # append a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean
>         # annotated or signed tagged state (as git describe only
>         # looks at signed or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s) and
>         # LOCALVERSION= is not specified
>         if test "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set"; then
>                 scm=$(scm_version --short)
>                 res="$res${scm:++}"
>         fi
> fi
> 
> LOCALVERSION isn't assigned in any place. Only CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
> can be assigned in .config file.
> Why do we need to check LOCALVERSION at here?

It can be set on the commandline:

make LOCALVERSION=something

Michal
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