From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 20:11:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA26629 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 20:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA26624 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 20:11:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00343; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 20:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 20:09:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Andreas Kohout cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Numbercount in /kernel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Andreas Kohout wrote: > if I boot, there is a messages from the kernel: > > FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Aug 17 22:36:48 MET DST 1996 > > Should4nt the #0 been incremented by every new kernel compilation? Only if you run config with the -n option to save the compliation directory. The advantage, other than incrementing the #, is that kernel compilations take about half the time to do since many of the support files aren't recompiled. There are many instances where you don't want to do this, though, and can cause odd problems. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major