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    kbuild: KERNELRELEASE is only re-defined when buiding the kernel · cb58455c
    Sam Ravnborg authored
    To avoid running setlocalversion as root no longer (re-)define
    KERNELRELEASE for each run. With this patch KERNELRELEASE is
    only re-read when we do an actual kernel build.
    Rationale behind this is "do as little as possible" when executing
    make install - as root!
    
    A new file named .kernelrelease is strored in the root of the kernel
    tree containing the actual version string.
    So when we use do a kernel build the .kernelrelease file will be updated.
    But in all other situations it is left as-is.
    
    To make it more visible the kernel now prints out the version being build.
    Sample:
    Building kernel 2.6.15-g63b794bf
    
    -dirty
    ...
    ...
    
    The patch also un-exports VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL EXTRAVERSION LOCALVERSION
    since all users of these are anyway broken - and none is left in the
    tree.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
    cb58455c