Dne 11.4.2015 v 15:20 Nicholas Mc Guire napsal(a): > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > >> On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 08:44:28 +0200 >> Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION is currently not documented but it is >>> needed when rebuilding a kernel that should result in the identical >>> binary. This is a brief documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION. >> >> Can we add something like the above to the document itself so that >> readers have an idea of why they might want to tweak this? >> >> Either way, I can take it in the docs tree if that's best..Michal? >> > I thought of that but it would be inconsistent as all other descriptions > here are only the function not the use. Most of the entries in this file predate efforts at deterministic builds, so I'd prefer usefulness over consistency here :-). > I did not find a file where > the problem of identical rebuild would really fit. ... unless, of course, you want to start a new file covering this topic. Because it's not just the few override variables, but also some options have to be turned off (I remember CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) and the paths must be the same, or relative paths must be used. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
