[LLVMdev] Just got bitten by accidentally using the wrong gcc

Dominic Hamon dom.hamon at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 00:17:06 PDT 2008


Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 20.03.2008, 15:44 -0700 schrieb Tanya M. Lattner:
>   
>> Its not just a matter of checking major/minor versions. It also depends on 
>> the target and in some cases the OS.
>> http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#brokengcc
>>
>> So for example, GCC 3.3.3 on Suse or GCC 3.4.0 on linux/x86 
>> (32-bit) has issues. Is it easy to check these kinds of things?
>>     
>
> uname identifies arch.
>
> /etc/lsb-release identifies Linux distribution; I'm not sure how to
> identify Apple and Cygwin.
>
>   
uname on Apple (at least in a Terminal) returns 'Darwin'.

dom



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