>Number:         8896
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       Make Makefile.i386 output version of kernel that was just built
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer (NetBSD/i386 Portmaster)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 27 13:18:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Rafal Boni
>Organization:
me, myself and I
>Release:        -current as of today
>Environment:
		generic i386 box running 1.4P
>Description:
	Since I've been tweaking kernels left and right and rebooting a lot
	and since my laptop preserves the kernel message buffer on reboots,
	I often wonder which kernel bits of the message buffer correspond to.

	Having the kernel makefile spit out the version before I install the
	new kernel is helpful, as the version info is right at the top of my
	brain.

>How-To-Repeat:
	reboot with new kernels a lot, wonder which part of message buffer
	corresponds to which kernel.  Look in /kern/version if you have
	kernfs to find out.  Wonder why the kernel makefile doesn't tell
	you the version it just built

>Fix:
	similar tweaks can probably be added to all the kernel makefiles,
	but I don't have the energy to do it for all of them.

Index: Makefile.i386
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/arch/i386/conf/Makefile.i386,v
retrieving revision 1.99
diff -b -u -r1.99 Makefile.i386
--- Makefile.i386	1999/07/26 05:20:46	1.99
+++ Makefile.i386	1999/11/27 21:08:28
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 SIZE?=	size
 STRIP?=	strip
 TSORT?=	tsort -q
+WHAT?=	what
 
 COPTS?=	-O2
 
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@
 SYSTEM_LD_HEAD=	rm -f $@
 SYSTEM_LD=	@echo ${LD} ${LINKFLAGS} -o $@ '$${SYSTEM_OBJ}' vers.o; \
 		${LD} ${LINKFLAGS} -o $@ ${SYSTEM_OBJ} vers.o
-SYSTEM_LD_TAIL=	@${SIZE} $@; chmod 755 $@
+SYSTEM_LD_TAIL=	@${WHAT} $@; ${SIZE} $@; chmod 755 $@
 
 DEBUG?=
 .if ${DEBUG} == "-g"
>Audit-Trail:
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