From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261193AbVBJSly (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:41:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261239AbVBJSly (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:41:54 -0500 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:1388 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261193AbVBJSlu (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:41:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:42:20 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Michael Renzmann Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)? Message-ID: <20050210184218.GA9338@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Renzmann , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <4209C71F.9040102@web.de> <35297.194.237.142.7.1107985448.squirrel@194.237.142.7> <420B07FA.7050309@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <420B07FA.7050309@web.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:06:34AM +0100, Michael Renzmann wrote: > Hi. > > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >>But... what is the right way to do this? > >I think you are looking for: > >make kernelrelease > > otaku@gimli linux-2.6.10 $ make kernelrelease > make: *** No rule to make target `kernelrelease'. Stop. > otaku@gimli linux-2.6.10 $ cd .. > otaku@gimli src $ cd linux-2.4.28 > otaku@gimli linux-2.4.28 $ make kernelrelease > make: *** No rule to make target `kernelrelease'. Stop. > otaku@gimli linux-2.4.28 $ > > I don't think this will help. > > Including the kernel's Makefile also is no option, I think ("rulespace > pollution"). I works with the 2.6 kernel. Sam