I tried to use 'make O=...' from an unclean source tree. This triggered the error path of setlocalversion. But by printing to STDOUT, it created a broken localversion which then caused another (unrelated) error: "4.7.0-rc2Error: kernelrelease not valid - run make prepare to update it" exceeds 64 characters After printing to STDERR, the true build error gets displayed later: /home/wsa/Kernel/linux is not clean, please run 'make mrproper' in the '/home/wsa/Kernel/linux' directory. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/setlocalversion | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion index 63d91e22ed7ccd..966dd3924ea9cb 100755 --- a/scripts/setlocalversion +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ fi if test -e include/config/auto.conf; then . include/config/auto.conf else - echo "Error: kernelrelease not valid - run 'make prepare' to update it" + echo "Error: kernelrelease not valid - run 'make prepare' to update it" >&2 exit 1 fi -- 2.8.1 -- 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
