On Tuesday 03 February 2009 03:28:58 Jim Meyering wrote: > Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Friday 23 January 2009 09:35:54 Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> What distribution are you using (I'm guessing Fedora 10). > >> Distributions that patch coreutils really should > >> modify the version string accordingly. > > > > if coreutils wants distros to do that, it should really facilitate > > things. the way gcc does it now with gcc-4.3+ is a pretty good standard: > > ./configure ... --with-pkgversion="some vendor/distro string" ... > > Good idea. > Patches welcome.
do you want the gcc method or a new method ? gcc does: - running `gcc --version` outputs: gcc (GCC) 4.3.3 - running `configure --with-pkgversion=PKG` changes it to: gcc (PKG) 4.3.3 so the coreutils analog would be: - running `ls --version` outputs: ls (GNU coreutils) 6.12 - running `configure --with-pkgversion=PKG` changes it to: ls (PKG) 6.12 that way we could end up with: ls (Gentoo p1.0) 6.12 -mike _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils