Rene Rivera wrote:

Hm, didn't know that existed... Looks like we can get the relevant info by using both -dumpversion and -dumpmachine.

Just be aware of the fact, that on HP-UX and Tru64 (and, may be, some other systems), the output of -dumpversion is not as "clean" as it is on Linux: HP-UX ----- bash-2.03$ gcc -dumpversion 2.9-hppa-991112 bash-2.03$ Tru64 ----- cxxosf.zko.hp.com> gcc -dumpversion 2.9-gnupro-99r1 cxxosf.zko.hp.com> Boris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene Rivera" <grafikrobot@gmail.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [boost] [tools] gcc compiler version detection

Sohail Somani wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Schrader

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$> gcc --version

Hi, is -dumpversion not a standard flag?

Hm, didn't know that existed... Looks like we can get the relevant info by using both -dumpversion and -dumpmachine.

Thanks for pointing those out.

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