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: Belcourt, Kenneth (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-07 12:37:31

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?

-- Noel