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Re: Configure options --with-bugurl, --with-pkgversion
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:00:01PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> But that is not what pkgversion is supposed to do, if I understand
> >> <http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ConfigVersion> correctly. It should rather
> >> specify an additional version tag (a vendor identifier) _extending_ the
> >> existing one.
> >
> > Perhaps binutils should use the 2.17.50.20070220 notation by default
> > for dated snapshots, as GDB does.
>
> Yes, I agree that this would definitely be a good thing.
If people generally like this form I can do a followup patch to make
binutils use it and generally follow the GNU Coding Standards in --version
output.
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