Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:17:08 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/led led.h Message-ID: <20040512081708.GA18088@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20040512123232.G10319@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20040510115040.0C9B516A53A@hub.freebsd.org> <20040511122030.I76738@root.org> <200405111626.22013.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040512123232.G10319@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:39:55PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: >This is not as bad as the programs that use __DATE__ or __TIME__, or >generate a version.c file whose version changes on every recompile, so >that repeated buildworlds cannot produce the same result twice. The kernel 'version' is annoying because not only does it change on every kernel compile but when it goes from 9 to 10 the string length changes. > There are also timestamps in *.a, but these files are easier to ignore. At least they are in a fixed location and a comparison program can be trained to ignore them. Peter
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