GDC with D frontend 2.081.2

[Daniel Kozak]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:40 AM Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> 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 < digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com>
> > 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.
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