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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