On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 10:13, Liviu Ionescu <i...@livius.net> wrote: > > On 9 Feb 2022, at 11:57, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > Is the existing ./configure --with-pkgversion= option not enough? > > My understanding of --with-pkgversion=, based on the fact that in QEMU this > string is appended to the version, was that it is a suffix that describes a > specific version. > > Most GNU tools, including GCC, binutils, etc, use a similar option, but the > string is prepended to the greeting message.
gcc doesn't prepend the pkgversion string to the greeting. Taking the distro gcc as an example, 'gcc -v' prints out the configure options used, which include --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04' and 'gcc --version' prints the version as: gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0 which is fairly similar to what qemu does today: QEMU emulator version 4.2.1 (Debian 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.19) (we just have the pkgversion and the upstream version swapped). -- PMM
