Re: [PATCH] kbuild: setlocalversion: print error to STDERR

[Michal Marek]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 09:00:38PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> I tried to use 'make O=...' from an unclean source tree. This triggered
> the error path of setlocalversion. But by printing to STDOUT, it created
> a broken localversion which then caused another (unrelated) error:
> 
> "4.7.0-rc2Error: kernelrelease not valid - run make prepare to update it" exceeds 64 characters
> 
> After printing to STDERR, the true build error gets displayed later:
> 
>   /home/wsa/Kernel/linux is not clean, please run 'make mrproper'
>   in the '/home/wsa/Kernel/linux' directory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/setlocalversion | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks, applied to kbuild.git#kbuild. But this points at another
problem, namely that filechk is ignoring the exit status of the command.

Michal