[PATCH] newvers.sh

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 16 01:41:05 UTC 2010


On 03/15/10 18:34, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <4B9EDB05.4020800 at FreeBSD.org>
>             Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> writes:
> : On 03/15/10 17:41, David O'Brien wrote:
> : > I'd rather not introduce yet more special things that have to be done
> : > before invoking newvers.sh.  
> : 
> : David,
> : 
> : Trying to understand what you're getting at here. What's your use case
> : for invoking newvers.sh from the command line? AFAIK it's only every
> : used as part of the build process. Once by the kernel build and once for
> : library related stuff (IIRC).
> 
> It is used in the kernel build (in a couple of different places) and
> in include/Makefile to generate osreldate.h. 

Well, includes are related to libraries, right/ :)

> I believe the latter can be simplified to not require it.

When I last looked at it I vaguely recall thinking that not needing
newvers.sh for that purpose was a good goal, but ENOTIME.


Thanks for refreshing my memory,

Doug

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