Weird strings in kernel uname when cross-compiling
Hi all,
anybody knows why every time I cross-compile my kernel (Denx 4.2 cross-compiling chain ) I get an extra string in my vermagic like this
2.6.24-rc3-gd7ed933b-dirty
when my kernel's ( secretlabs 2.6.24-rc3) makefile has this parameters:
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 24
EXTRAVERSION = -rc3
(So no -gd7ed933b-dirty anywhere... )
Having that is a bit annoying when I try to natively compile modules, so I need to workaround it by copying that extra string into my other Makefiles. Anybody knows how to get rid of it?
/Albert
Quoted 14 lines · On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:41:05 +0100 "A. Nolson" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
anybody knows why every time I cross-compile my kernel (Denx 4.2
cross-compiling chain ) I get an extra string in my vermagic like this2.6.24-rc3-gd7ed933b-dirty
when my kernel's ( secretlabs 2.6.24-rc3) makefile has this parameters:
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 24
EXTRAVERSION = -rc3
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(So no -gd7ed933b-dirty anywhere... )
Having that is a bit annoying when I try to natively compile modules,
so I need to workaround it by copying that extra string into my other Makefiles. Anybody knows how to get rid of it?
It gets added on if you are building from a git repository and you have CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO set. Disable that and it should go away.
(BTW, a quick grep in the top level Makefile would have told you all that.)
josh
Dear Albert,
Quoted 5 lines · In message <[email protected]> Josh Boyer wrote:
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anybody knows why every time I cross-compile my kernel (Denx 4.2
cross-compiling chain ) I get an extra string in my vermagic like this2.6.24-rc3-gd7ed933b-dirty
...
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Having that is a bit annoying when I try to natively compile modules,
so I need to workaround it by copying that extra string into my other Makefiles. Anybody knows how to get rid of it?
It seems you don;t use the kernel's Makefile to build your modules, which is a problem in itself. You should fix that first.
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It gets added on if you are building from a git repository and you have
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTOset. Disable that and it should go away.
Note that disabling this is strongly discouraged as the "annoying extra string" is extremely useful - it allows for exact version ideltification of the kernel you are using, including the fact that you have modified but uncommited files in your tree.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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