Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/Makefile: use CC --version instead of -v

[Robert Buchholz <rbu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 27/8/08 11:33, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 27/8/08 11:12, "Robert Buchholz" <rbu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Btw, what is the reason for ".*" in the first place?
> >
> > Lost somewhat in the mists of time, but I think some vendor
> > packages (possibly Red Hat iirc) stuck something in between 'gcc'
> > and 'version'.
> >
> > Another tactic might be 'tail -n1'. I can't remember if the version
> > is always the last line of 'gcc -v' output though.
> >
> > Hmmm... actually that is what Linux does (tail -n 1). So let's go
> > with that.
>
> I've checked in 'tail -1' which I think is more portable. If that is
> agreeable to everyone then I'll backport to 3.3 and 3.2 branches.

Thanks, backports are appreciated (and trivial).


Robert

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