Re: LOCALVERSION in setlocalversion

[Haojian Zhuang]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19.4.2011 08:42, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
>> In scripts/setlocalversion under linux kernel tree, the scripts seems
>> a little strange.
> [...]
>>         # append a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean
>>         # annotated or signed tagged state (as git describe only
>>         # looks at signed or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s) and
>>         # LOCALVERSION= is not specified
>>         if test "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set"; then
>>                 scm=$(scm_version --short)
>>                 res="$res${scm:++}"
>>         fi
>> fi
>>
>> LOCALVERSION isn't assigned in any place. Only CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
>> can be assigned in .config file.
>> Why do we need to check LOCALVERSION at here?
>
> It can be set on the commandline:
>
> make LOCALVERSION=something
>
> Michal
>

Thanks a lot. It works.

I still have a question. I can't find the semantic of
${LOCALVERSION+set} in some
shell tutorials. Could you help me to figure out a link of introducing this?

Best Regards
Haojian
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