David Relson <rel...@osagesoftware.com> writes: > How about an external tool? I use sed to fill in LOCALVERSION, e.g. > > V=$( date "+%m%d.%H%M" ) > cp -p .config .config.old > sed s/LOCALVERSION.*/LOCALVERSION=\"$V\"/ < .config.old > .config > > make vmlinux modules modules_install
Ahaa ... that looks just like what I'm after... I didn't know about the env variable LOCALVERSION. I haven't actually tried this yet but it looks like what I'm after.. Thanks