Re: Suppressing a plus from setlocalversion

[Pavel Roskin]

Quoting David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > There is one annoyance in the build system that I cannot work around.
>
> That's surprising since you actually state the workaround, i.e. using
> LOCALVERSION= with make, yourself.

OK, I don't consider that an acceptable solution, as it could  
interfere with other build systems.

However, as soon as I posted this message, I found a better solution,  
namely setting LOCALVERSION= in the environment (both for the normal  
user and for root).  This is less likely to have unexpected effects,  
since the environment variables don't override the variables  
explicitly set in makefiles.

> Yes, because the kernel you've produced is no longer 3.1.0-rc2, it is
> modified.  If you want to do something else locally, then you can always
> use LOCALVERSION=.
>
> The + was added to stop falsely identifying kernels as a specific version
> when they are modified by default.  Sorry if you forget to override it
> sometimes.

OK, I have an acceptable solution for my needs now, and if others need  
it, hopefully they would find this post.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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