gnu ld version check in libstdc++-v3/acinclude.m4

[Richard Guenther]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Richard Guenther wrote:
> 
> > !            sed -e 's/GNU ld version \(([^(]*)\)\? \?\([0-9.][0-9.]*\).*/\2/'`
> 
> It might be a good idea to remove the check for the word "version" here - 
> "version" is not part of the GNU Coding Standards --version output so 
> might go away.  Standard would be more like
> 
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils 2.17.50 20070220) 2.17.50
> 
> where the text after the last space is the real version number, and 
> --with-pkgversion replaces the "GNU Binutils 2.17.50 20070220" with your 
> name and version number for your binutils package.  I simply didn't fix 
> all pre-existing problems with --version output when adding 
> --with-pkgversion support.

That would make the regexp look like

  sed -e 's/GNU ld \(version \)\{0,1\}\(([^)]*) \)\{0,1\}\([0-9.][0-9.]*\).*/\3/'

Richard.

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