On Saturday, October 22, 2011 12:31:25 pm Luchesar V. ILIEV wrote:
> Speaking of that, and in the context of the recursion that svnversion
> does, something else comes to my mind...
>
> svnversion is currently executed in ${SRCDIR}/sys, so the revision
> number is relevant only to the kernel sources. But FreeBSD is not just a
> kernel, unlike Linux, so wouldn't it make more sense to actually check
> the revision directly at ${SRCDIR}, thus catching possible different
> revisions in other parts of the base system source tree?
Please no. That makes svnversion take a _lot_ longer. We used to do that,
but changed it. Also, the kernel build does not use any sources outside
of sys/, so for the kernel an svnversion of sys/ is perfectly reasonable.
--
John Baldwin
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