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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.7-ac3
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:23:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31713.996542637@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "30 Jul 2001 10:32:11 MST." <9k45mr$mr1$1@cesium.transmeta.com>

On 30 Jul 2001 10:32:11 -0700, 
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>The way .version is currently created is in fact a huge problem... it
>means that if you do "make" as a user and then "make install" as root,
>it will have to rebuild several files and relink the kernel.  My
>opinion is that .version should probably be created as a side effect
>of linking vmlinux.

Funny about that.  It is exactly what I did in kbuild 2.5.  Now the
version number is only bumped if vmlinux needs to be relinked.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-31  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-30  0:22 Linux 2.4.7-ac3 Alan Cox
2001-07-30  3:47 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-30 11:16   ` Alan Cox
2001-07-30 11:25     ` Keith Owens
2001-07-30 11:43       ` Alan Cox
2001-07-30 11:50         ` Keith Owens
2001-07-30 17:32           ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-07-31  1:23             ` Keith Owens [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-31  7:55 Robert Cawley
2001-07-31 23:59 ` David Flood
2001-08-01  8:52   ` bvermeul

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