Re: kbuild: Support LOCALVERSION

From: Sam Ravnborg (sam_at_ravnborg.org)
Date: 09/01/04

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To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

    On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 03:43:41PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
    > Maybe it would also be good (in the longer term)
    > to introduce a config name into one of the Kconfig files, which is
    > preserved in the .config file (eg. SuSE does something like that and
    > even while I'm not a SuSE user, it's really dandy at some times, esp.
    > for things like "SMP-4GB", "VAX-KA4x" and the like). It's basically like
    > adding the defconfig_* name to some of the variables :-)

    Ian addedconfig CONFIG_LOCALVERSION to a Kconfig file. I will
    try to add it and see how it turns out. If Ian does not beat me..

    > PS: When will the package support show up?
    UML needs to be finised first.
    I have several packages related patches queued up. But I want
    to give it an extra look since there are several basic issues
    I am not satisfied with.

            Sam
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