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Re: Patch for --version output
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:21:33 -0800
- Subject: Re: Patch for --version output
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201311842500.18228-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>
--On Thursday, January 31, 2002 06:43:56 PM +0000 "Joseph S. Myers"
<jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> This patch makes some programs in GCC follow the GNU Coding Standards
> for --version output.
> Note (Fortran): though g77 now follows what the GNU Coding Standards
> say is the correct format where a program has its own version
> different from the overall package's version, does g77, only now
> distributed as an integrated part of GCC, really still need its own
> version?
No. Please change it to behave like gcc/g++. Preapproved.
> Note (general): should the copyright notices in --version output say
> "Free Software Foundation, Inc." (most programs) or just plain "Free
> Software Foundation" (some libgcj programs)?
The former.
Your patch is OK for the mainline. Let's not apply it to the 3.0
branch; people may have scripts that depend on these outputs and
changing them in a bug-fix release seems dangerous.
Thanks,
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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