[cmake-developers] Suspicious Clang versions

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Aug 5 10:59:35 EDT 2013


On 08/05/2013 10:53 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
> Well, I don't know what we're really talking about here... but it sounds like you're trying to determine a compiler's features based on its version number.  That's inherently pretty fragile, don't you agree?

Regardless of that, if I ask someone 5 years from now what version
of the compiler they are using and they say CMake reports "4.2"
how do I know if they mean upstream 4.2 or Apple 4.2?  See my
other proposals in this thread.

-Brad



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