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[Xen-devel] xen Makefile being nasty with EXTRAVERSION

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Subject: [Xen-devel] xen Makefile being nasty with EXTRAVERSION
From: Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:16:11 +0300
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There is a snippet in the xen Makefile like this:

  EXTRAEXTRAVERSION=$(subst $(findstring $(EXTRAVERSION),$(shell basename 
$(TOPDIR))),,$(EXTRAVERSION))
  override EXTRAVERSION:=$(subst 
linux-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL),,$(shell basename 
$(TOPDIR)))$(EXTRAEXTRAVERSION)

Now, this probably works fine if the basename of the kernel directory
is something common. And it is probably perfectly okay to do that in
the 'make world' Xen builds. But if Xen is treated like 'just another
kernel patch' or if distributions wish to provide Xen kernels, this is
a major pain in the ass.

Since the kernel-build directory is not named linux-anything, and
EXTRAVERSION comes from above, I get this in include/linux/version.h:

  #define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.8kernel-source-2.6.8-xen-shiro-1"

If those two lines are commented out in the Makefile, everything looks
as it should be for a separate build.

Could some sort of an alternative solution to EXTRAVERSION be thought
of, or atleast a toggle to disable this behaviour?

-- Naked



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