Mike Frysinger wrote: > 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 >
Well I'd be a little worried about putting numbers in there in case scripts parsing output from --version got confused (like our bootstrap script for example). How about: ls (Gentoo coreutils) 6.12 ls (Red Hat coreutils) 6.12 ... Or perhaps we could use the wget example on my fedora distro: GNU Wget 1.10.2 (Red Hat modified) cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils