On 26.08.2010 15:54, Andrew Stubbs wrote:

Hi all,

I've just discovered that Ubuntu is not using the Linaro release information in the --version string. This is not ideal when we get bug reports as it makes it hard to understand what Linaro release to use to reproduce the issue.

Yes. The Linoro version misuses the DEV-PHASE field, and introduces another pair of parantheses, and a pair of square brackets. How much version parsing code out there will break with the new schema? I didn't want to find out for 10.10/10.11.

The builds are configured with --pkg-version, and add mention Linaro in this field, e.g. $ gcc --version gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-9ubuntu2) 4.4.5 20100824 (prerelease) $ gcc-4.5 --version gcc-4.5 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.1-2ubuntu2) 4.5.1

Therefore, I've created a new wiki page to track the mappings:

https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/VersionMappings

For now this only applies to GCC, but no doubt other tools will follow.

Please help keep it up to date if you find a version is missing. I've added it to the GCC release process wiki page, so hopefully it should get looked at at least once a month.

btw, when is -0 and -1 used at end of the Linaro version?