[OE-core] does a normal OE kernel build negate the ability to generate a local version string?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Fri Apr 8 13:57:02 UTC 2016
i was just playing with wind river linux 8 and trying to figure out
why i couldn't generate a local version string that contained the git
commit ID, so i zipped over to oe-core to see how it was done there,
and it seems to be the same way, so can someone clarify that my
understanding here is correct?
normally, if i want to add the git commit ID ("-gxxxxxxxx") to the
kernel version string so it's available via "uname", i'm used to
selecting the kernel config option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO, which
uses:
$ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
to extract the first 8 characters of the commit ID. so i selected that
option, but wasn't getting that string.
poking around further, i saw this in scripts/setlocalversion:
scm_version()
{
local short
short=false
cd "$srctree"
if test -e .scmversion; then
cat .scmversion
return
fi
... snip ...
so if the file ".scmversion" exists, its contents are used instead.
now *i* never set that file, but lo and behold, in the kernel source
tree, there it was, empty, which explains why i wasn't getting any
local version string.
and where did that empty .scmversion file come from? i see this in
kernel.bbclass:
kernel_do_configure() {
# fixes extra + in /lib/modules/2.6.37+
# $ scripts/setlocalversion . => +
# $ make kernelversion => 2.6.37
# $ make kernelrelease => 2.6.37+
touch ${B}/.scmversion ${S}/.scmversion <---- there
... snip ...
which clearly appears to touch that empty file. is that deliberate? is
this an explicit decision by this bbclass file to prevent people from
generating that local version string? am i reading all this correctly?
rday
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