Hi,
Due to a change in the main Makefile the .version file is overwritten
by a new empty one since at least 2.4.10-pre12, so the version becomes
or remains 1 after each recompile.
>From the xfs cvs tree (http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux-2.4-xfs/):
> --- linux-2.4-xfs/linux/Makefile 2001/09/17 02:09:52 1.123
> +++ linux-2.4-xfs/linux/Makefile 2001/09/21 16:28:50 1.124
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> VERSION = 2
> PATCHLEVEL = 4
> SUBLEVEL = 10
> -EXTRAVERSION =-pre10-xfs
> +EXTRAVERSION =-pre12-xfs
> .
> .
> newversion:
> - @if [ ! -f .version ]; then \
> - echo 1 > .version; \
> - else \
> - expr 0`cat .version` + 1 > .version; \
> - fi
> + . scripts/mkversion > .version
The script does the same as the lines in the Makefile, except that it does
not specify stdout.
The script cats .version, but, this has just been overwritten because of
the redirection: "scripts/mkversion > .version", so it is empty before
the script can read it.
I do no know why the lines in the Makefile have been moved to a script,
but this is obviously not the way to do it.
A small change to mkversion and leaving out the "> .version" in the
Makefile for instance can do the trick:
A patch for this against linux-2.4.11:
diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.11/Makefile linux/Makefile
--- linux-2.4.11/Makefile Wed Oct 10 22:59:03 2001
+++ linux/Makefile Wed Oct 10 23:01:58 2001
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
$(TOPDIR)/include/linux/compile.h: include/linux/compile.h
newversion:
- . scripts/mkversion > .version
+ . scripts/mkversion
include/linux/compile.h: $(CONFIGURATION) include/linux/version.h newversion
@echo -n \#define UTS_VERSION \"\#`cat .version` > .ver
@@ -530,6 +530,6 @@
tar -cvz --exclude CVS -f $(KERNELPATH).tar.gz $(KERNELPATH)/. ; \
rm $(KERNELPATH) ; \
cd $(TOPDIR) ; \
- . scripts/mkversion > .version ; \
+ . scripts/mkversion ; \
rpm -ta $(TOPDIR)/../$(KERNELPATH).tar.gz ; \
rm $(TOPDIR)/../$(KERNELPATH).tar.gz
diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.11/scripts/mkversion linux/scripts/mkversion
--- linux-2.4.11/scripts/mkversion Wed Oct 10 22:59:34 2001
+++ linux/scripts/mkversion Wed Oct 10 23:03:30 2001
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
if [ ! -f .version ]
then
- echo 1
+ echo 1 > .version
else
- expr 0`cat .version` + 1
+ expr 0`cat .version` + 1 > .version
fi
-
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