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Re: Configure options --with-bugurl, --with-pkgversion

"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Standard output would be more like
>
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils 2.17.50 20070220) 2.17.50
>
> where the text after the last space is the real version number, and 
> --with-pkgversion replaces the "GNU Binutils 2.17.50 20070220". 

But that is not what pkgversion is supposed to do, if I understand
<http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ConfigVersion> correctly.  It should rather
specify an additional version tag (a vendor identifier) _extending_ the
existing one.

Andreas.

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