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 <[email protected]> > --- > 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
