Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 07:01:18 +0300 (MSK) From: "."@babolo.ru To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: joe@tao.org.uk, sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, "."@babolo.ru Subject: Re: conf/6346: Kernel version strings need to relate to the source not the build Message-ID: <200201310401.HAA01299@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <A1EEA90C-15F3-11D6-9809-0003930737AC@dataplex.net> from "Richard Wackerbarth" at "Jan 30, 2 08:38:39 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Richard Wackerbarth writes: > On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 06:26 PM, "."@babolo.ru wrote: > > > Richard Wackerbarth writes: > >> > >> I think we could actually do it just once (at the time that we update > >> from the cvs?) and cache that result. > >> That would get rid of at least a part of the delay. > >> > >> It can also be done by playing games on a special file in the master > >> cvs > >> archive (but not the copies thereof) > > Exactly. > > What about do > > date +'#define LAST_MOD "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"' > /path/last_mod_date.h > > on any CVS tree update? Sorry, commit > > And #include <last_mod_date.h> > > That won't work. It produces the time of the cvs checkout/update and not > the time of the source modification. > That is little better than the time of the compile that we have now. I think about commit time (my mistake, not checkout) But I understand, it is slightly complex to generate last_mod_date.h,v then last_mod_date.h, but there no need in tags in it, so it can be whole overwritten by every commit > You need to modify the file as a part of the cvs commit process. The RCS > keyword $Date$ or equivalently one of the $Id$ variants such as > $FreeBSD$ gets the time associated with file modification rather than > file retrieval. Joe's method is functionally correct. We are now looking > for a more efficient method to accomplish the same thing. -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200201310401.HAA01299>