Re: Linux 2.4.7-ac3

H. Peter Anvin
2001-07-30T18:51:34Z

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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