[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: toolchain: gcc: query the compiler macros to obtain the gcc version

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed Mar 23 11:00:03 CET 2016


2016-03-22 17:13, Markos Chandras:
> This is similar to what's being used in the Linux kernel. Querying the
> GCC macros directly gives more accurate results compared to -dumpversion
> which could vary across distributions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <mchandras at suse.de>
> ---
> In openSUSE Tumbleweed (and in any other SUSE distribution which
> uses (or will use) gcc >= 5), gcc -dumpversion returns '5'. This is on
> purpose as discussed in https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941428
> As a result of which, the gcc-4.x comparison (40 against 5) does not
> work leading to tons of warnings and failures during build. This patch
> aims to change the way the gcc version is obtained by using the gcc macros
> directly.
> ---

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>

Applied, thanks


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