Change format of version string

diff --git a/bfd/version.h b/bfd/version.h
index 952fa61808f484c4f9d5ed1fdfc3bf07d953c0d4..c47d595a350445d00c76a33f382b8e5356948fec 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/version.h
+++ b/bfd/version.h
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 #define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20150105
 #define BFD_VERSION @bfd_version@
-#define BFD_VERSION_STRING  @bfd_version_package@ "Linaro 2015.01-3-git " @bfd_version_string@
+/* Various parts of GCC parse Binutils version string in different fragile ways,
+   and we need to be very careful to not break them.  So far it seems that
+   appending Linaro-specific version at the end is fine so long as it doesn't
+   contain any dots ".".  */
+#define BFD_VERSION_STRING  @bfd_version_package@ @bfd_version_string@ " Linaro 2015.01-3-git"
 #define REPORT_BUGS_TO @report_bugs_to@