Module Name: src
Committed By: apb
Date: Sun Aug 3 09:24:08 UTC 2014
Modified Files:
src/doc: BUILDING.mdoc
Log Message:
BUILDINFO part 5: Document BUILDINFO in doc/BUILDING.mdoc.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.100 -r1.101 src/doc/BUILDING.mdoc
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Modified files:
Index: src/doc/BUILDING.mdoc
diff -u src/doc/BUILDING.mdoc:1.100 src/doc/BUILDING.mdoc:1.101
--- src/doc/BUILDING.mdoc:1.100 Sat Jun 14 12:20:17 2014
+++ src/doc/BUILDING.mdoc Sun Aug 3 09:24:08 2014
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: BUILDING.mdoc,v 1.100 2014/06/14 12:20:17 apb Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: BUILDING.mdoc,v 1.101 2014/08/03 09:24:08 apb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2011 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -351,6 +351,25 @@ which can be printed by
.Dq Li uname \-v .
.DFLTu
.
+.It Sy BUILDINFO
+This may be a multi-line string containing information about the build.
+This will appear in
+.Sy DESTDIR Ns Pa /etc/release ,
+and it will be stored in the
+.Va buildinfo
+variable in any kernels that are built.
+When such kernels are booted, the
+.Xr sysctl 7
+.Va kern.buildinfo
+variable will report this value.
+The string may contain backslash escape sequences, such as
+.Dq "\e\e"
+(representing a backslash character)
+and
+.Dq "\en"
+(representing a newline).
+.DFLTu
+.
.It Sy BUILDSEED
GCC uses random numbers when compiling C++ code.
This variable seeds the gcc random number generator using
