On Saturday, October 22, 2011 12:31:25 pm Luchesar V. ILIEV wrote: > Speaking of that, and in the context of the recursion that svnversion > does, something else comes to my mind... > > svnversion is currently executed in ${SRCDIR}/sys, so the revision > number is relevant only to the kernel sources. But FreeBSD is not just a > kernel, unlike Linux, so wouldn't it make more sense to actually check > the revision directly at ${SRCDIR}, thus catching possible different > revisions in other parts of the base system source tree? Please no. That makes svnversion take a _lot_ longer. We used to do that, but changed it. Also, the kernel build does not use any sources outside of sys/, so for the kernel an svnversion of sys/ is perfectly reasonable. -- John BaldwinReceived on Mon Oct 24 2011 - 10:27:52 UTC
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