[PATCH] newvers.sh

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Mar 16 01:35:52 UTC 2010


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

Warner


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