Re: kern/38563: have the kernel build spit out the kernel version info

["Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc." <woods%planix.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38563; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc." <woods%planix.ca@localhost>
To: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>,
 gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/38563: have the kernel build spit out the kernel version info
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 12:30:50 -0400

 On 2-May-08, at 9:12 PM, David Holland wrote:
 
 > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:47:00AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
 >> nice idea, but it can't go in with this patch.  it isn't
 >> cross-compile friendly.
 >>
 >> i also want the version.  perhaps we can print the 'version'
 >> files contents instead, and not depend on a working "what".
 >
 > How about
 >
 >   ${SED} '/const char sccs/!d;s/.*#)//;s/\\.*//' vers.c
 >
 > ?
 
 
 That probably does the trick.
 
 I tried to mimic newvers.sh with this and it seems to work OK too.
 
 Note the call to "size" too.  (and I'm not sure why the execute bit is  
 set)
 
 Index: sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvs/master/m-NetBSD/main/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc,v
 retrieving revision 1.111
 diff -u -r1.111 Makefile.kern.inc
 --- sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc  24 Mar 2008 18:03:27 -0000      1.111
 +++ sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc  2 May 2008 18:12:00 -0000
 @@ -200,7 +200,8 @@
                  ${_MKSHECHO}\
                  ${LD} -Map $@.map --cref ${LINKFLAGS} -o $@ '$$ 
 {SYSTEM_OBJ}' '$${EXTRA_OBJ}' vers.o; \
                  ${LD} -Map $@.map --cref ${LINKFLAGS} -o $@ $ 
 {SYSTEM_OBJ} ${EXTRA_OBJ} vers.o
 -SYSTEM_LD_TAIL?=@${SIZE} $@; chmod 755 $@
 +
 +SYSTEM_LD_TAIL?=@echo ""; echo "NetBSD $$(${HOST_SH} $S/conf/ 
 osrelease.sh) (${.CURDIR:T}) \#$$(cat version)"; ${SIZE} $@; chmod 755  
 $@
 
   TEXTADDR?=     ${LOADADDRESS}                  # backwards  
 compatibility
   LINKTEXT?=     ${TEXTADDR:C/.+/-Ttext &/}
 
 
 
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                                        Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc.
                                        <woods%planix.ca@localhost>