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

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yeah, I agree, but its very useful.
> 
> I propose the following replacement: We test to see whether
> there's a .extraversion file, and if so override EXTRAVERSION
> with the contents of the file. This should be compatible with
> distros and still be convenient for us.
> 
> There's already quite a bit of 'diversity' with the way different
> architectures deal with handling default configs etc, so I think
> we'll get away with this.
> 
> I'll make the change unless anyone shouts soon.

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".

 -- Keir


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