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

[Tom Goodale]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Erik Schnetter wrote:

>> True, so how about putting it in as a set of comments above the
>> appropriate compiler flags in the make.code.defn, in a format like
>> above. This would provide the information with no ambiguity as to
>> what it means.
>
> We want to use this information in thorn Formaline and put it e.g. into
> the output directory.  Comments are not good for this.  Make variables
> would be better, because these can be accessed by a thorn.

In which case the actual version of the compiler used, and not the one 
found at configure time, would probably be much more useful and much less 
deceptive.

Tom