[PATCH] build: allow a downstream suffix in the version shown during boot
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Mon Apr 11 17:31:28 CEST 2022
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 11:42:45AM +0100, Nicolas Boulenguez wrote:
> Hello.
>
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-February/474887.html got
> no answer, probably because it is trivial and has been lost among more
> important topics, so I am submitting it again.
>
> It is convenient for redistributors to add a build number to the
> U-boot source version, which is displayed at boot and useful to know
> if a device has been successfully updated, to triage bugs and so on.
>
> For example, Debian adds '+dfsg-N' where N changes with each release
> of a .deb package.
>
> Author: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at debian.org>
> Author: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas at debian.org>
> Signed-By: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas at debian.org>
>
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-PIE)
>
> # Read UBOOTRELEASE from include/config/uboot.release (if it exists)
> UBOOTRELEASE = $(shell cat include/config/uboot.release 2> /dev/null)
> -UBOOTVERSION = $(VERSION)$(if $(PATCHLEVEL),.$(PATCHLEVEL)$(if $(SUBLEVEL),.$(SUBLEVEL)))$(EXTRAVERSION)
> +UBOOTVERSION = $(VERSION)$(if $(PATCHLEVEL),.$(PATCHLEVEL)$(if $(SUBLEVEL),.$(SUBLEVEL)))$(EXTRAVERSION)$(BUILD_VERSION)
>
> export VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL UBOOTRELEASE UBOOTVERSION
> export ARCH CPU BOARD VENDOR SOC CPUDIR BOARDDIR
> --- a/doc/build/gcc.rst
> +++ b/doc/build/gcc.rst
> @@ -151,6 +151,11 @@
> Note that the :doc:`tools` are always built with the included version of libfdt
> so it is not possible to build U-Boot tools with a system libfdt, at present.
>
> +If you are modifying the upstream sources, please make this visible
> +at boot time by defining the BUILD_VERSION version suffix.
> +
> +* BUILD_VERSION=+<vendor><build number><...>
> +
> Other build targets
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Why do you need this, instead of just using CONFIG_LOCALVERSION? What
do you do for linux kernel builds, which are also Kbuild based? Thanks.
--
Tom
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