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

To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen Makefile being nasty with EXTRAVERSION
From: Brian Wolfe <brianw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:11:49 -0500
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*nod* sounds fine to me. SHould continue to work just fine with my
conversion of the sparse tree to a unified diff as well as doesn't step
on xenlinux-builder's toes (as well as Debian's). ;)

On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 09:05, Ian Pratt wrote:
>  > 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. :-)
> 
> I think I've changed my mind on this, and have a much better plan:
> 
> We shouldn't monkey with EXTRAVERSION at all, but just leave
> what's set in the linux toplevel Makefile. We should then have
> our top-level Xen build script patch the Makefiles in the linux
> build trees as appropriate.
> 
> This scheme wins because a) it is 100% compatible with what
> distros etc want to do (they use extraversion for their own
> purposes); b) doesn't change the current behaviour from a users
> POV (i.e. no setting of XENVERSION required); c) is closest to
> standard i386 linux; d) requires least Makefile magic.
> 
> A clear cut winner if ever I saw one...
> 
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
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