Re: kbuild: Support LOCALVERSION

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:24:22AM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote:
 
> Sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot to include a suggested patch
> (attached).
> 
Thanks for the fix.
  
> @@ -763,7 +770,7 @@
>  	)
>  endef
>  
> -include/linux/version.h: Makefile
> +include/linux/version.h: $(srctree)/Makefile $(localversion-files)
>  	$(call filechk,version.h)
>  

We could just make this:
include/linux/version.h: FORCE
       $(call filechk,version.h)

Then version.h would be updated also if LOCALVERSION is specified on 
the command line.
Only issue is that it will always be checked - but the same goes for 
a few other files.

	Sam
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