[OE-core] [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: improve reproducibility

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-04-03 at 08:58 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:23 AM, Jonathan Liu <net147 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION=1 to avoid build version being incremented
>> > on
>> > every build. It is visible in the output of "cat /proc/version"
>> > after
>> > the hash character.
>> It is possible that someone might actually want this feature, for
>> debug or
>> different build variants.
>>
>> So this would be better as a variable that can be overridden.
>
> Surely users can override it in this form (like the USER/HOST variants
> already there)?

I've never used the user/host variant, so I don't know.

How can you override an exported variable in a shell function in a
bbclass ? I've never tried.

I know for a fact, that I wouldn't want this on by default, hence my comment.

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard



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