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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Alexander Guy <alexander@andern.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: fix building on Ubuntu-hybrids
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:35:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6162830.h8YXoNDffD@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414107572-17073-1-git-send-email-alexander@andern.org>

2014-10-23 16:39, Alexander Guy:
> In the case where a userspace reports itself as Ubuntu, but the
> kernel isn't providing the expected version signature interface,
> turn off Ubuntu specializations.
> 
> This situation happens often enough in development environments,
> and with multi-distribution build servers (e.g. chroot, containers).
[...]
> -ifeq ($(shell lsb_release -si 2>/dev/null),Ubuntu)
> +ifeq ($(shell test -f /proc/version_signature && lsb_release -si 2>/dev/null),Ubuntu)

Please, could explain what is the file /proc/version_signature and why
it can be a check for Ubuntu kernel?

Thanks
-- 
Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-23 23:39 Alexander Guy
2014-10-24  7:35 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-10-24 17:22   ` Alexander Guy
2014-10-29 23:54 ` Thomas Monjalon

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