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Re: Correction to EGCS FAQ: Problems debugging EGCS
- To: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Correction to EGCS FAQ: Problems debugging EGCS
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 29 Dec 1998 12:20:56 -0800
- Newsgroups: cygnus.egcs.patches
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <13961.7139.444330.308036.cygnus.egcs.patches@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Rainer Orth) writes:
> <prog>-<version>
>
> While this is the name of the toplevel directory of GNU distributions, the
> software proper should be called
>
> <prog> <version>
>
> without a dash. Comments?
We used to use <prog> <version> since the dash in <prog>-<version> is
only necessary for file names. If you run <prog> --version (or in
gdb's case start the application) there is no dash in the appropriate
line. Therefore I'd say remove all dashes.
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