Re: RFE: allow for computed version number

[Bruno Haible]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> GCC, Binutils, GDB and EGLIBC support configure options --with-pkgversion 
> and --with-bugurl.  --with-pkgversion changes the package name used in 
> --version output (and in manuals), so you get e.g.
> 
> GNU assembler (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.19.1
> 
> rather than
> 
> GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.19.1
> 
> which clearly marks the binary as being a particular distributor's version 
> without requiring every distributor to maintain their own local patch

Coreutils would like to have the same feature. See the thread starting at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-02/msg00013.html>.

Bruno