Stop setting G3_VERSION_INFO C++ linkstamp variable.

RELNOTES:
No longer define G3_VERSION_INFO for c++ linkstamp compiles, as it was a duplicate of G3_TARGET_NAME.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 204466459

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/cpp/CppLinkstampCompileHelper.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/cpp/CppLinkstampCompileHelper.java
index ce8d5bc89c..e989097ddd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/cpp/CppLinkstampCompileHelper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/cpp/CppLinkstampCompileHelper.java
@@ -93,14 +93,12 @@ public class CppLinkstampCompileHelper {
         ImmutableList.<String>builder()
             .add("GPLATFORM=\"" + cppConfiguration + "\"")
             .add("BUILD_COVERAGE_ENABLED=" + (codeCoverageEnabled ? "1" : "0"))
-            // G3_VERSION_INFO and G3_TARGET_NAME are C string literals that normally
-            // contain the label of the target being linked.  However, they are set
-            // differently when using shared native deps. In that case, a single .so file
-            // is shared by multiple targets, and its contents cannot depend on which
-            // target(s) were specified on the command line.  So in that case we have
-            // to use the (obscure) name of the .so file instead, or more precisely
-            // the path of the .so file relative to the workspace root.
-            .add("G3_VERSION_INFO=\"${LABEL}\"")
+            // G3_TARGET_NAME is a C string literal that normally contain the label of the target
+            // being linked.  However, they are set differently when using shared native deps. In
+            // that case, a single .so file is shared by multiple targets, and its contents cannot
+            // depend on which target(s) were specified on the command line.  So in that case we
+            // have to use the (obscure) name of the .so file instead, or more precisely the path of
+            // the .so file relative to the workspace root.
             .add("G3_TARGET_NAME=\"${LABEL}\"")
             // G3_BUILD_TARGET is a C string literal containing the output of this
             // link.  (An undocumented and untested invariant is that G3_BUILD_TARGET is the