[Developers] Patch: store the version of C/C++/Fortran compilers

[Erik Schnetter]

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 06:18, Tom Goodale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while this may be useful, it could be misleading, as if the version
> of the compiler changes on disk after the configuration is created,
> these version numbers would be wrong.
>
> One possibly better solution would be to put commands which could
> determine the version of the compilers into the make.config.defn
> file, and then we could run them at compile time and store the info
> somewhere.

This could also be misleading, because different files could be compiled 
with different compiler versions.

If you want to trace how configure made its decisions, then you need the 
versions as seen by configure.

-erik

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