Re: Patch for --version output

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> > 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.

This is best something for the Fortran maintainer to deal with, given that
ISTR there are documentation issues with explaining that, though the
version number is 3.1, features promised for g77 0.6 are not present.

(One thing to note when changing this: hopefully all the separate
[vV]ersion.c files for g77/libf2c can go away.
maintainer-scripts/update_version may need fixing so it doesn't try to do
anything with files not present on the branch/mainline it is using.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk