This is starting to turn into a bikeshed, but anyway... on 16/11/2012 12:00 Daniel Braniss said the following: > the question as to what compiler was used to compile the kernel is a bit of an > oxymoron, since the kernel is made up of many different modules, which get > compiled > either by different compilers, or different compiler flags. The canonical way to compile a kernel is to use buildkernel and compile modules along with the kernel. Other configurations are supported too, of course. > since the compiler does 'sign' the modules it compiles (and clang will/should > do it soon: http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7292) some tool like > file(1) could be modified to provide it, or config -x (8) ... The key word in your note about clang is 'soon' as in 'not yet'. Besides, when I see a bug report with a dmesg *I* want to immediately know what compiler was used there. > IMHO, the only meaningfull information added to uname was the svn/git(and > hopefully hg) rev. version. -- Andriy GaponReceived on Fri Nov 16 2012 - 09:19:01 UTC
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