On 03/15/10 18:34, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <4b9edb05.4020...@freebsd.org>
> Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> 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
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