On 17/05/12 15:46, John Reiser wrote:
>> Please help me diagnose the following configure error on a x86_64/Linux 
>> system.
>
> The error happens because the logic in ./configure does not like "gcc4" as the
> name of the compiler.  The logic confuses the trailing '4' as part of the
> numerical version "4.6.0".  But there is no dot '.' after the first '4',
> and the logic cannot handle this.
>
>> [sunfire02:~/packages/valgrind-3.7.0] % $CC --version
>>
>> gcc4 (GCC) 4.6.0
>
> $ echo "gcc4 (GCC) 4.6.0" | sed 's/^[^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*$/\1/'
> 4
> # Notice there is no dot '.' after the '4' above, because the '4'
> # comes from "gcc4" and not from "4.6.0".

We don't try and parse that output unless "gcc -dumpversion" has failed 
to return a version number though, and in this case it will have done.

Aha! I was looking at current svn... The 3.7.0 release does have the 
problem you describe, but somebody has fixed it in svn.

Tom

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