Re: Bugs in unexpand(1) version 6.10

[Pádraig Brady]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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
> 

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.