Re: [Xen-devel] xen Makefile being nasty with EXTRAVERSION

[Keir F. <Kei...@cl...>]

> 
> > What a pain in the arse - another file to keep track of. We'd need to
> > copy an appropriate .extraversion file into each of our build trees
> > anyway. Might as well just have a command-line-overridable switch as I
> > suggested, which defaults to somethign sane like "-xen".
> 
> We can make the config_* target write .extraversion. I really
> don't see how they'd be a problem keeping track of it, and I
> think its better than having to remember to put stuff on the make
> command line.
> 
> If we go with your plan, we'd have to rename our -xen0 kernel to
> -xen, otherwise we'd needlessly confuse people who are
> reconfiguring their kernel.

Hmmm, well we can easily support all options, in descending order of
priority:
 1. XENVERSION specified on command line
 2. Contents of .extraversion file
 3. Default to "-xen"

I'll add this to the Linux Makefiles, but I'll leave the root Makefile
using XENVERSION for now. You can change it to use .extraversion if
you care. :-)

 -- Keir