On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Lutz Jaenicke via RT wrote:

>
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thu Jun 13 08:34:54 2002]:
>
> > The "config" script needs to use "gcc -dumpversion"
> > instead of "gcc --version" to determine the gcc version.
> > gcc-3.1 outputs a bunch of text with "--version", but
> > just the number with "-dumpversion", which also works for
> > gcc-2.95.
>
> Sounds like a possible solution to the problem of gcc version
> recognition. The solution being included currently doesn't seem to be
> sufficient (see thread "Various patches for 0.9.6d and 0.9.7-beta1",
> I have added [EMAIL PROTECTED] as another requestor for this
> ticket).
>
> For how long this flag has been supported? I suppose it will work on
> CYGWIN as well.

Goes back to at least 1994
...
tim(trr)@asv 4% gcc -dumpversion
2.6.3
...

>
> Best regards,
>        Lutz
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