Joseph S. Myers wrote: > GCC, Binutils, GDB and EGLIBC support configure options --with-pkgversion > and --with-bugurl. --with-pkgversion changes the package name used in > --version output (and in manuals), so you get e.g. > > GNU assembler (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.19.1 > > rather than > > GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.19.1 > > which clearly marks the binary as being a particular distributor's version > without requiring every distributor to maintain their own local patch
Coreutils would like to have the same feature. See the thread starting at <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-02/msg00013.html>. Bruno
