[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH] scripts/buildversion.py: allow version to be overridden

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 18:48 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > The main project has an out-of-tree build, and currently *copies*
> > everything from the SeaBIOS submodule (except .git) into the build
> > directory and building it there. It creates a .version file with the
> > overall version number of the main project.
> >
> > By setting OUT= and KCONFIG_CONFIG= I can do a proper out of tree build
> > from the original read-only SeaBIOS submodule... except for the version
> > number. This solves that.
>
> Okay, thanks for the info.  However, since my past experience with
> completely custom versioning wasn't positive, I'd prefer the main repo
> to encourage using the EXTRAVERSION method instead.

Ack. I'll come up with a different approach. Thanks.