Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:34:55 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: dougb@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] newvers.sh Message-ID: <20100315.193455.69510145151660650.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <4B9EDB05.4020800@FreeBSD.org> References: <20100313.211303.585238797224891349.imp@bsdimp.com> <20100316004117.GB36963@dragon.NUXI.org> <4B9EDB05.4020800@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton <dougb@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. I believe the latter can
be simplified to not require it.
Warner
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