Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Clean up and speed up the localversion logic

[Nico Schottelius]

Michal Marek [Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 03:40:38PM +0200]:
> Now that we run scripts/setlocalversion during every build, it makes
> sense to move all the localversion logic there. This cleans up the
> toplevel Makefile and also makes sure that the script is called only
> once in 'make prepare' (previously, it would be called every time due to
> a variable expansion in an ifneq statement). No user-visible change is
> intended, unless one runs the setlocalversion script directly.

Sounds good in general.

> --- a/scripts/setlocalversion
> +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
> @@ -10,73 +10,158 @@
>  #
>  
>  usage() {
> -	echo "Usage: $0 [srctree]" >&2
> +	echo "Usage: $0 [--scm-only] [srctree]" >&2
>  	exit 1
>  }

If more stuff like this is coming, we should probably rewrite
option handling. No need to change right now, but to keep in mind.

> -cd "${1:-.}" || usage
> +scm_only=false
> +srctree=.
> +if test "$1" = "--scm-only"; then
> +	scm_only=true
> +	shift
> +fi
> +if test $# -gt 0; then
> +	srctree=$1

You probably want

srctree="$1" 

to catch spaces and co. in the path.

Otherwise I just had a quick view over it, but seems to look good.

Nico

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