From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 01:41:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6AF1065673 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:41:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0F98FC1B for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:41:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4642 invoked by uid 399); 16 Mar 2010 01:41:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 16 Mar 2010 01:41:03 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B9EE1AD.9080805@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:41:01 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100218 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <20100313.211303.585238797224891349.imp@bsdimp.com> <20100316004117.GB36963@dragon.NUXI.org> <4B9EDB05.4020800@FreeBSD.org> <20100315.193455.69510145151660650.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20100315.193455.69510145151660650.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] newvers.sh X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:41:05 -0000 On 03/15/10 18:34, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <4B9EDB05.4020800@FreeBSD.org> > Doug Barton 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. Well, includes are related to libraries, right/ :) > I believe the latter can be simplified to not require it. When I last looked at it I vaguely recall thinking that not needing newvers.sh for that purpose was a good goal, but ENOTIME. Thanks for refreshing my memory, Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/