Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:21:33 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com Subject: Re: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh 1.37 Message-ID: <19980522122133.64226@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199805220556.PAA06349@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Fri, May 22, 1998 at 03:56:57PM %2B1000 References: <199805220556.PAA06349@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 03:56:57PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >> revision 1.37
> >> date: 1998/05/21 19:21:45; author: eivind; state: Exp; lines: +9 -2
> >> Move __FreeBSD_version from src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to
> >> src/sys/sys/param.h, to facilitate access from the kernel. This make
> >> it possible to do outside kernel development and have it actually work
> >> properly.
> >
> >This modification appears broken. There's no way to find the path.
>
> Another fortunate error :-).
>
> Anyway, editing <sys/param.h> (or anything in <sys>) in `make
> world' can't work, since the source tree might be read-only, and
> ${DESTDIR}/usr/include/sys might be a symlink to /sys/sys.
<sys/param.h> is not edited during 'make world'. <sys/param.h> is
designated as the prime source of __FreeBSD_versions; the version in
<osreldate.h> etc is just a copy.
Eivind.
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