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Re: --with-pkgversion --with-bugurl patch
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:18:15 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: --with-pkgversion --with-bugurl patch
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708171050410.21437@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709091821310.11229@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> That said, wouldn't it be worthwhile documenting this in
> gcc-4.3/changes.html? Not everyone, not even packagers, follows our
> mailing lists and ChangeLogs so carefully that they might not miss
> this nice enhancement otherwise.
How about this release note?
Index: changes.html
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</pre>
</li>
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+ <li>The configure options <code>--with-pkgversion</code> and
+ <code>--with-bugurl</code> have been added. These allow
+ distributors of GCC to include a distributor-specific string in
+ manuals and <code>--version</code> output and to specify the URL
+ for reporting bugs in their versions of GCC.</li>
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com