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 -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/Received on Tue Mar 16 2010 - 00:41:05 UTC
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