Re: Bugs in unexpand(1) version 6.10

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 03 February 2009 03:28:58 Jim Meyering wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> 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