From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30981 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2006 00:10:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 30971 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jul 2006 00:10:04 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:10:00 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1G2GgL-0007Ih-1b; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:09:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:10:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: vladimir@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] --with-versuffix and --with-bugurl options Message-ID: <20060717000952.GA27967@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , vladimir@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200607151332.50662.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <200607151312.k6FDCuc3012353@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607151312.k6FDCuc3012353@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:12:56PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > From: Vladimir Prus > > Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:32:50 +0400 > > > > The attached patch adds two configure option to allow one to add > > extra version information and bug reporting URL at configure time, > > without changing code. > > > > OK? > > Unless the other GNU toolchain sub-projects are moving towards the > same scheme I really don't see the point in confusing the users of the > official FSF with those xtra configure options. We need less knobs, > not more. > > I understand that CoseSourcery has the convention on adding a -csl > suffix to the version number for their tools. But that is just one of > many conventions. I think things like this are better kept as a local > modification. Well, I've been doing what this patch does, using sed, for Debian packages for several years. I'd love to have a configure option for it instead. It's the format of additional version information recommended in the GDB internals manual, which is why I was using it for Debian. CodeSourcery does also have patches for the other tools to use the same mechanism, by the way. The GCC bits haven't been submitted yet because of the GCC release cycle, but they will be for 4.3. And the binutils bits will probably be submitted Real Soon Now. I won't be heartbroken if we carry this as a local patch; after all, it's mostly useful because we have local patches :-) But it might be handy for others. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery