Re: Alan, tie a string around your finger

From: Garst R. Reese (reese@isn.net)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 11:16:49 EST


Xuan Baldauf wrote:
>
> Sorry for complaining, but
>
> although I never received an announcement for ac19, I downloaded it and tried
> to compile it with
>
> nohup bash -c "make dep; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install;
> lilo" &
>
> over night (my box is not the fastest). This usually works fine. But everytime
> you forget to update EXTRAVERSION, I get my modules overwritten in the wrong
> place. As a consequence, I cannot use the modules on the yet running ac18
> anymore, because the modversions are for ac19, not ac18.
>
> So *please* use a script which automatically increments EXTRAVERSION (I'm sure
> you use a script to produce patches). If that's to difficult to act on a whole
> file, create a file "extraversion", and import it into the makefile. It's not
> important how you do it, but please do it.
>
> Great thanx :o)
>
> Xuân. :o)
>
> P.S.: Keep on hacking. :-)
>
> "Garst R. Reese" wrote:
>
> > You keep forgetting to update EXTRAVERSION :)
> > Thanks,
> > Garst
> >
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Tie a string around your finger and remember to
less linux/Makefile

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