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Diffstat (limited to 'gold/version.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gold/version.cc | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gold/version.cc b/gold/version.cc index 489880dff98..9e3ec2877a2 100644 --- a/gold/version.cc +++ b/gold/version.cc @@ -40,9 +40,21 @@ static const char* version_string = "1.4"; void print_version(bool print_short) { - /* xgettext:c-format */ - printf("GNU gold (GNU binutils %s) version %s\n", - BFD_VERSION_STRING, version_string); + // The --version output is intended to follow the GNU coding + // standards. We want to print something like: + // GNU gold (GNU binutils 2.19) 1.4 + // BFD_VERSION_STRING looks like "(GNU Binutils) 2.19". We take off + // those parentheses. + std::string bfd_version(BFD_VERSION_STRING); + if (bfd_version[0] == '(') + { + bfd_version.erase(0, 1); + size_t pos = bfd_version.find(')'); + if (pos != std::string::npos) + bfd_version.erase(pos, 1); + } + + printf("GNU gold (%s) %s\n", bfd_version.c_str(), version_string); if (!print_short) { |