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Re: RFE: allow for computed version number
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: RFE: allow for computed version number |
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Sat, 30 May 2009 14:07:21 +0200 |
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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