From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: new --with-pkgversion-suffix configure option
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 09:19:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a64qvpm2.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a03c4f56f167a7c08ce40200425d92a2ac39e8.1668165880.git.aburgess@redhat.com> (Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches's message of "Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:24:52 +0000")
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
Andrew> I propose that a far better solution is to add a new configure option
Andrew> that will allow me to attach additional content at the end of the
Andrew> version string, like this:
Andrew> GNU gdb (My Distro) 13.1.5
Andrew> This, I think, is much clearer. To support this I propose adding a
Andrew> new configure option, --with-pkgversion-suffix. This option takes a
Andrew> string, which is then appended to the version number. And so, we now
Andrew> configure like this:
This seems fine to me.
thanks,
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-16 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-11 11:24 Andrew Burgess
2022-11-16 16:19 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2022-11-16 16:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2022-11-17 15:49 ` Andrew Burgess
2022-11-17 16:26 ` Sam James
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