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On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:44:21AM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > > >> $ gcc -dumpversion
> > > >>> 4.7
> > > >>>
> > > Hum, how about something like always appending .0.0 to the gcc -
> > > dumpversion then cut at 3 characters ?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Or something like this in Sed or Perl within the $(shell) expansion:
> >
> 
> Well, we have no dependency on perl so far.
> I would prefer we keep at just makefile and shell stuff.
> 
> Olivier ? opinion ?
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Marchand

I think the suggestion of just appending .0.0 is the simplest option which
should also work well.

Regards,

/Bruce