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In comp.os.linux.misc, Lew Pitcher  <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote:
> The question intrigued me, so I checked the source for the /bin/test
> on my Slackware installation. It appears that, for the GNU CoreUtils
> version of test, GNU took "the long way around" in it's error reporting.
> 
> Specifically, the source includes conditional compilation logic to 
> report name of the binary based on a value passed in at compilation time.

Time was when many non-Linux systems used to have Gnu utilities
installed with different filenames, typically adding a 'g' to the front.

On this NetBSD box I'm using, for example:

$ ls --version
ls: unknown option -- -
usage: ls [-1AaBbCcdFfghikLlMmnOoPpqRrSsTtuWwXx] [file ...]

$ gls --version 2>&1
ls (GNU coreutils) 9.0
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.

I expect the compiled in name is relevant to that. Not sure how test
uses it though.

$ cp $(which gtest) /tmp/gnutest
$ /tmp/gnutest x =
gnutest: missing argument after '='

Elijah
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gcc is called that because the vendor cc was likely different

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