From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.7-ac3
Date: 30 Jul 2001 10:32:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9k45mr$mr1$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15RBSL-0003cB-00@the-village.bc.nu> <23546.996493814@ocs3.ocs-net>
Followup to: <23546.996493814@ocs3.ocs-net>
By author: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:43:29 +0100 (BST),
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> >How about we do
> >spec: .version
> >then ?
>
> Same problem, no rule to create .version. This should work.
>
> spec:
> [ -e .version ] || echo 1 > .version
> . scripts/mkspec >kernel.spec
>
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.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-30 18:51 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 [this message]
2001-07-31 1:23 ` Keith Owens
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2001-07-31 7:55 Robert Cawley
2001-07-31 23:59 ` David Flood
2001-08-01 8:52 ` bvermeul
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