Hi,

when, several weeks ago, I was testing Fedora Core 2, among my 7th LFS system, i noticed something... well... let's call it... 'particular'...

When I executed gcc --version I obtained the following output:

gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)

And my question is... how can this be? I mean... how can the people at Red Hat customize the gcc version output text? maybe it can be accomplished by diving into the gcc source code and changing some line of code for the --version argument?

I know all of this sounds stupid... or at least... well... it's non-critical for me, but it would be great to be able to customize the gcc version output, from a 'eye-candy' perspective, of course

Any idea on how to be able to change the output?

Thanks in advance,

Julio

Mine says:I think it means that I am running GCC version 3.4.20040907 (the September version), but the RH versioning is 3.4.2-2. Nothing to be worried about. It's simply a secondary, internal version added by RH.

yes, they added that line to file version.c from inside the gcc build folders

it's defined as extern const char string[];, if I remember correctly, and its default value is 3.4.2 so I, in theory, only have to change its value within version.c to show something like

gcc 3.4.2 (SN95G5/Athlon64 optimized) (of course, as I said, this is only for 'eye-candy', no more)

so steps to customize gcc's version output are the following:

1. untar the gcc tarball (I'm using full gcc tarball instead of separated ones)
2. locate version.c file, located under gcc-3.4.2/gcc/version.h (I'm using 3.4.2)
3. change the version string to fit your taste

save changes on file and... voila

Julio