/bin/freebsd-version does not get rebuilt in NO_CLEAN build:

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Sat Nov 22 21:49:47 UTC 2014


Dear Dag-Erling, colleagues,

I'm usually using -DNO_CLEAN builds including upgrades; however, it turns out 
that freebsd-version utility does not depend really on newvers.sh, despite it 
is included in Makefile dependencies: after upgrading from 1106 to 1121:

marck at hamster:/usr/src/bin/freebsd-version> l /boot/*/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  21165281 Nov 21 13:31 /boot/GENERIC/kernel*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   8386544 Nov  6 12:33 /boot/kernel.old/kernel*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   8396264 Nov 21 13:25 /boot/kernel/kernel*

I still got

marck at hamster:/usr/src/bin/freebsd-version> freebsd-version -ku
10.1-STABLE
10.1-PRERELEASE

while script itself had been reinstalled:

marck at hamster:/usr/src/bin/freebsd-version> l /bin/freebsd-version
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3197 Nov 21 13:38 /bin/freebsd-version*

but its content did not regenerated:

marck at hamster:/usr/src/bin/freebsd-version> grep -w BRANCH ../../sys/conf/newvers.sh
BRANCH="STABLE"
        BRANCH=${BRANCH_OVERRIDE}
RELEASE="${REVISION}-${BRANCH}"
marck at hamster:/usr/src/bin/freebsd-version> grep USERLAND /bin/freebsd-version
USERLAND_VERSION="10.1-PRERELEASE"
        echo $USERLAND_VERSION
marck at hamster:/usr/src/bin/freebsd-version> l /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/freebsd-version/freebsd-version
-rwxrwxr-x  1 marck  wheel  3197 Sep  7 23:21 /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/freebsd-version/freebsd-version*




-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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