Re: [Boost-testing] [EXTERNAL] Sandia-cray-gcc-4.6 appears to be gcc 4.3.4

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] [EXTERNAL] Sandia-cray-gcc-4.6 appears to be gcc 4.3.4
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-07 12:45:25

On 7 January 2013 17:37, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Jan 7, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Daniel James wrote:
>
>> I'm just compiling the list of testers, and I noticed that the gcc
>> version in the config results for Sandia-cray-gcc-4.6 lists the
>> version number as 'C++ version 4.3.4 [gcc-4_3-branch revision
>> 152973]'. Config info is at:
>
> Strange, the actual version is:
>
> #define __VERSION__ "4.7.2 20120920 (Cray Inc.)"
>
> I've updated the tester to reflect this updated version.  Why does Boost.config find the wrong gcc, or perhaps a better question is how is it finding gcc?

It's just running "g++", you can see the compile and link commands in
the config output.