On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:40 AM Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d-announce < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 06:18:28 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 7:55 PM Eugene Wissner via > > Digitalmars-d-announce < [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 17:23:04 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran > >> wrote: > >> > 1. It would be good to print the DMD frontend version with > >> > `gdc --version`. It is helpful in reporting bugs. LDC does > >> > this. > >> > > >> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible. GCC doesn't > >> allow to change --version output: > >> https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89 > >> > >> > > This is not true, right now on archlinux if you type gdc > > --version it will display d frontend version > > https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89#c1 > > Is it set with --with-pkgversion? The same information will be > displayed for gcc and g++ then. It is not always desirable if you > ship the compiler as a whole (with libtool etc). > Yes and no. It is set with --with-pkgversion but it is only for gdc.
