From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 7 16:20:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C47837BE5D for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 16:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA01588; Sun, 7 May 2000 16:20:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <18f801bfb87a$d27b9aa0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Alexander Frolkin" Cc: "freebsd-stable" Subject: Re: Kernel build number in 4.0-STABLE Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 16:20:11 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I've built three kernels now, using the new 'make buildkernel installkernel >> KERNEL=' method, but the kernel build number isn't incrementing: >> >> FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE (PANDORA) #0: Sat May 6 19:12:20 PDT 2000 >> >> Anyone else seen this behavior? >It's because buildkernel cleans out the build directory before building. You >could use -DNOCLEAN, but I'm not sure if this would have any side effects. Is there an *official* kernel build method that increments properly? I assume that the 3.x manual method is depricated now... If the ''make buildkernel installkernel' method is indeed the new, improved, preferred method, is there any plan to get this working correctly? It's no big deal, I'm just curious... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message