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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.7-ac3
Date: 30 Jul 2001 10:32:11 -0700
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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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