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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: toolchain: gcc: query the compiler
 macros to obtain the gcc version
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On 03/23/2016 09:49 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-03-22 22:50, Markos Chandras:
>> On 22/03/16 22:34, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 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@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
>>>
>>> Good to know. It could be in the commit log.
>>
>> I can add this information to the commit message and send a v2 if needed.
> 
> I will apply with this info.

Thank you Thomas.

-- 
markos