From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:37:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:37:19 -0400 Received: from web12305.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.103]:44809 "HELO web12305.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:37:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20010920133735.38875.qmail@web12305.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:37:35 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?willy=20tarreau?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make kernel build numbers work again (was: Re: Cannot compile 2.4.10pre12aa1 with 2.95.2 on To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi ! Why not simply something like this : newversion: - . scripts/mkversion > .version + echo $$[`cat .version 2>/dev/null`+1] > .version The shell evaluates the `cat` expression before it writes to ".version", so there's no temp file needed anymore. Comments ? Willy ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Un e-mail gratuit @yahoo.fr ! Yahoo! Courrier : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com