Re: First suggestion to lift version handling

[Christian Jönsson <c dot christian dot joensson at telia dot com>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:13:50PM +0100, Christian Jönsson wrote:
> Here's my first suggestion to lift version handling in the binutils
> sources, to differ the main branch (experimental) from (any)
> prerelease branch. A regeneration of bfd/configure is thus needed.
> 
> Now, let's figure out how the bfd_version_string can be used in the
> test suite so that test results from different branches, and releases,
> can be seen from log files.

Well, the as-new --version output looks fine to me, here's main branch:

GNU assembler 2.12.90 20020304 (experimental)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `sparc-linux'.

but the test suite gets it wrong:

                === gas Summary ===

# of expected passes            153
../as-new Inc.


and I would really like that to be something like

                === gas Summary ===

# of expected passes            153
/share1/gcc-dev/src/objdir/gas/as-new 2.12.90 20020304 (experimental)

(but actually I'd like version to be 2.13 as you all who follow this
know, but that's yet an other issue)

Cheers,

/ChJ