non coherent options, switches and descriptions

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

 Joseph> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Paul Koning wrote:
 >> >> There was general agreement, some time ago, that -V's current
 >> >> effect was basically useless; perhaps it could be replaced by
 >> the >> binutils effect.
 >> 
 Neil> Sounds like a plan to me 8-)
 >>  Um... but I remember makefiles that use it.

 Joseph> The only case they can use that will actually work reliably
 Joseph> is -V with the exact same compiler version as that of the
 Joseph> driver.  The only makefiles I remember as doing this were
 Joseph> those of libc5, which I don't think are now relevant. 

Sorry, I meant user makefiles.

       paul