[WBEL-users] proc/version

[John Morris]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Mailing Lists wrote:

> Not sure if this needs to be changed or not but when i cat /proc/version 
> it still references RedHat
> 
> Linux version 2.4.21-4.EL (buildsys@builder) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 
> (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-20)) #1 Sat Dec 13 19:47:38 CST 2003

This string is embedded by GCC.  It does appear to be easily changable in
gcc's spec file.  The important questions are:

1.  Will anything break if it is changed?

2.  Am I brave enough to tamper with something as vital as GCC?

3.  Is it something that RH might have a problem with?

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