kbuild: KERNELRELEASE is only re-defined when buiding the kernel

To avoid running setlocalversion as root no longer (re-)define
KERNELRELEASE for each run. With this patch KERNELRELEASE is
only re-read when we do an actual kernel build.
Rationale behind this is "do as little as possible" when executing
make install - as root!

A new file named .kernelrelease is strored in the root of the kernel
tree containing the actual version string.
So when we use do a kernel build the .kernelrelease file will be updated.
But in all other situations it is left as-is.

To make it more visible the kernel now prints out the version being build.
Sample:
Building kernel 2.6.15-g63b794bf-dirty
...
...

The patch also un-exports VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL EXTRAVERSION LOCALVERSION
since all users of these are anyway broken - and none is left in the
tree.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This commit is contained in:
Sam Ravnborg 2006-01-09 21:20:34 +01:00
parent a9aa1ffaac
commit cb58455c48

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@ -141,24 +141,6 @@ VPATH := $(srctree)
export srctree objtree VPATH TOPDIR
nullstring :=
space := $(nullstring) # end of line
# Take the contents of any files called localversion* and the config
# variable CONFIG_LOCALVERSION and append them to KERNELRELEASE. Be
# careful not to include files twice if building in the source
# directory. LOCALVERSION from the command line override all of this
localver := $(objtree)/localversion* $(srctree)/localversion*
localver := $(sort $(wildcard $(localver)))
# skip backup files (containing '~')
localver := $(foreach f, $(localver), $(if $(findstring ~, $(f)),,$(f)))
LOCALVERSION = $(subst $(space),, \
$(shell cat /dev/null $(localver)) \
$(patsubst "%",%,$(CONFIG_LOCALVERSION)))
KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(LOCALVERSION)
# SUBARCH tells the usermode build what the underlying arch is. That is set
# first, and if a usermode build is happening, the "ARCH=um" on the command
@ -353,7 +335,10 @@ CFLAGS := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
-ffreestanding
AFLAGS := -D__ASSEMBLY__
export VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL EXTRAVERSION LOCALVERSION KERNELRELEASE \
# Read KERNELRELEASE from .kernelrelease (if it exists)
KERNELRELEASE = $(shell cat .kernelrelease 2> /dev/null)
export KERNELRELEASE \
ARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC \
CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP MAKE AWK GENKSYMS PERL UTS_MACHINE \
HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
@ -551,26 +536,6 @@ export KBUILD_IMAGE ?= vmlinux
# images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values
export INSTALL_PATH ?= /boot
# If CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is set, we automatically perform some tests
# and try to determine if the current source tree is a release tree, of any sort,
# or if is a pure development tree.
#
# A 'release tree' is any tree with a git TAG associated
# with it. The primary goal of this is to make it safe for a native
# git/CVS/SVN user to build a release tree (i.e, 2.6.9) and also to
# continue developing against the current Linus tree, without having the Linus
# tree overwrite the 2.6.9 tree when installed.
#
# Currently, only git is supported.
# Other SCMs can edit scripts/setlocalversion and add the appropriate
# checks as needed.
ifdef CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO
localversion-auto := $(shell $(PERL) $(srctree)/scripts/setlocalversion $(srctree))
LOCALVERSION := $(LOCALVERSION)$(localversion-auto)
endif
#
# INSTALL_MOD_PATH specifies a prefix to MODLIB for module directory
# relocations required by build roots. This is not defined in the
@ -782,6 +747,50 @@ $(sort $(vmlinux-init) $(vmlinux-main)) $(vmlinux-lds): $(vmlinux-dirs) ;
$(vmlinux-dirs): prepare scripts
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$@
# Build the kernel release string
# The KERNELRELEASE is stored in a file named .kernelrelease
# to be used when executing for example make install or make modules_install
#
# Take the contents of any files called localversion* and the config
# variable CONFIG_LOCALVERSION and append them to KERNELRELEASE.
# LOCALVERSION from the command line override all of this
nullstring :=
space := $(nullstring) # end of line
___localver = $(objtree)/localversion* $(srctree)/localversion*
__localver = $(sort $(wildcard $(___localver)))
# skip backup files (containing '~')
_localver = $(foreach f, $(__localver), $(if $(findstring ~, $(f)),,$(f)))
localver = $(subst $(space),, \
$(shell cat /dev/null $(_localver)) \
$(patsubst "%",%,$(CONFIG_LOCALVERSION)))
# If CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is set scripts/setlocalversion is called
# and if the SCM is know a tag from the SCM is appended.
# The appended tag is determinded by the SCM used.
#
# Currently, only git is supported.
# Other SCMs can edit scripts/setlocalversion and add the appropriate
# checks as needed.
ifdef CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO
_localver-auto = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) \
$(srctree)/scripts/setlocalversion $(srctree))
localver-auto = $(LOCALVERSION)$(_localver-auto)
endif
localver-full = $(localver)$(localver-auto)
# Store (new) KERNELRELASE string in .kernelrelease
kernelrelease = \
$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(localver-full)
.kernelrelease: FORCE
$(Q)rm -f .kernelrelease
$(Q)echo $(kernelrelease) > .kernelrelease
$(Q)echo " Building kernel $(kernelrelease)"
# Things we need to do before we recursively start building the kernel
# or the modules are listed in "prepare".
# A multi level approach is used. prepareN is processed before prepareN-1.
@ -798,8 +807,7 @@ $(vmlinux-dirs): prepare scripts
# and if so do:
# 1) Check that make has not been executed in the kernel src $(srctree)
# 2) Create the include2 directory, used for the second asm symlink
prepare3:
prepare3: .kernelrelease
ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
@echo ' Using $(srctree) as source for kernel'
$(Q)if [ -f $(srctree)/.config ]; then \
@ -986,7 +994,7 @@ CLEAN_FILES += vmlinux System.map \
MRPROPER_DIRS += include/config include2
MRPROPER_FILES += .config .config.old include/asm .version .old_version \
include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h \
Module.symvers tags TAGS cscope*
.kernelrelease Module.symvers tags TAGS cscope*
# clean - Delete most, but leave enough to build external modules
#
@ -1072,6 +1080,7 @@ help:
@echo ' tags/TAGS - Generate tags file for editors'
@echo ' cscope - Generate cscope index'
@echo ' kernelrelease - Output the release version string'
@echo ' kernelversion - Output the version stored in Makefile'
@echo ''
@echo 'Static analysers'
@echo ' buildcheck - List dangling references to vmlinux discarded sections'
@ -1293,6 +1302,8 @@ checkstack:
kernelrelease:
@echo $(KERNELRELEASE)
kernelversion:
@echo $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
# FIXME Should go into a make.lib or something
# ===========================================================================