linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] override build timestamp

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702180259210.14458@scrub.home>
Date:	Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:04:42 +0100 (CET)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] override build timestamp

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Olaf Hering wrote:

> Pass a timestamp to kbuild via an enviroment variable.
> 
>     TZ=UTC BUILD_TIMESTAMP=2007-01-01 make -kj O=../O vmlinux
> 
> This can be used when the kernel source is in a SCM and uname -v
> is supposed to give the commit date and not the package build time.

Is this really necessary? I don't really see the point of this.

bye, Roman
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