Re: [Boost-build] gcc version/flavour detection (Was: [Boost-cvs] CVS: boost/tools/build/v2/tools gcc.jam , 1.82, 1.83)

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-25 13:03:43

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> I get:
> 
>       XXXXX 4.0.3 Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5
>       YYYYY ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5
>       ZZZZZ ubuntu______-_ubuntu_
> 
> Which probably means that regex.transform misbehaves.

Hm, perhaps we should add some tests for this kind of case :-)

> At the same time, I think encoding full "flavour" starts to look unnecessary. 
> The most important use case for that is mingw/cygwin -- which we need to 
> support. But for Linux, adding the name of the distro to target path looks 
> unncessary for most users. Can we just MATCH for mingw/cygwin?

I'm now thinking the same thing, so yes. I had the impression the flavor 
was a bit more stable, but since it looks fairly messy it's best to 
limit which ones we propagate. So I'll add a filter to only add it as we 
find particular uses for it. Anyone know how the Cygwin GCC identifies 
itself?

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