From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 21:40:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA03614 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 21:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA03606 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 21:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-1.ime.net [206.231.148.130]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA09806; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:37:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <321FD88C.A9E@ime.net> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:37:32 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: Andreas Kohout , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Numbercount in /kernel References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Andreas Kohout wrote: > > > if I boot, there is a messages from the kernel: > > > > FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Aug 17 22:36:48 MET DST 1996 > > > > Should4nt the #0 been incremented by every new kernel compilation? > > Only if you run config with the -n option to save the compliation > directory. The advantage, other than incrementing the #, is that kernel > compilations take about half the time to do since many of the support > files aren't recompiled. > > There are many instances where you don't want to do this, though, and can > cause odd problems. > Yea, I learned this the hard way once, Now I'll just let it take longer. :) Although I was doing it for faster compiles not counts. Would be kinda nice to have it store the count someplace else so removal of the compile dir dosn't trash the count. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848