Re: Setting BUILD_ID in config/general.h. Where BUILD_ID gets displayed?

Joshua Oreman <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:23:10 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
\On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:05 PM, sobtwmxt <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Does a definition like
>
>   #define BUILD_ID        "My build of gpxe"
>
> in config/general.h suffices to having a custom BUILD_ID?  In fact,
> when BUILD_ID gets displayed?

Comments suggest that it was once displayed at execution time. It
looks like that is no longer the case; core/config.c defines a
BUILD_STRING suitable for runtime display but never does anything with
it, and it's only a preprocessor macro so it doesn't wind up in the
executable image.

-- Josh

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