--with-pkgversion --with-bugurl patch

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Sep 14 00:12:00 GMT 2007


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
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.3/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.70
diff -u -r1.70 changes.html
--- changes.html	11 Sep 2007 20:25:52 -0000	1.70
+++ changes.html	13 Sep 2007 23:17:34 -0000
@@ -538,6 +538,12 @@
       diff /tmp/O2-opts /tmp/O3-opts | grep enabled
     </pre>
     </li>
+
+    <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>
   </ul>
 
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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