binutils 20080523-1: version string breaks python2.5 distutils
Christopher Faylor
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Thu May 29 03:18:00 GMT 2008
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:49:55AM +0000, Joe Pham wrote:
>As part of the binutils 20080523-1 package, both ld (ld -v) and dllwrap
>(dllwrap --version) report their version as "2.18.50.20080523". This
>version string format causes the python2.5 distutils tool to abort with
>error. On Linux, the format would have been something like "2.18.50
>20080523". Any chance to make this consistent with Linux?
The version string is straight from a standard binutils distribution.
Nothing has been done to modify it. It comes from this line in the
bfd Makefile:
./bfd/Makefile: bfd_version_string="\"$(VERSION).$${bfd_version_date}\"" ;\
So, no. I'd suggest modifying python. It pretty clearly doesn't adapt
correctly to a standard binutils version string.
cgf
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