[Lazarus] Version information under Linux

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> 2009/6/4 Torsten Bonde Christiansen <tc at epidata.dk>:
>>
>> Did anyone find an answer for this? I'm interested because I would like to
>> extract the version information at runtime in both linux and in windows?
>
> So would I, but nobody responded yet.
>
> Also, if the ELF format doesn't support version information, then
> shouldn't the Version Info tab in Lazarus IDE be disabled for Linux,
> BSD platforms. There is no point in giving the developer false hope by
> filling in that information, but nothing is inserted in the
> executable.

Version 2.3.1 of the compiler supports all this on linux.

Michael.