[cmake-developers] Suspicious Clang versions

[Brad King]

On 08/05/2013 03:45 PM, Brad King wrote:
> One of the main purposes of the compiler <id> is to load platform
> modules like "Platform/<os>-<id>-<lang>" and "Compiler/<id>-<lang>".
> Most of the information in these files will be identical across
> the upstream and vendor-specific Clang distributions so having a
> separate compiler id may lead to confusion and duplication.
> 
> Another approach is to introduce a CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_VENDOR
> variable to name the vendor (or _VARIANT?).

On second thought adding yet another dimension to the compiler
identification is just more complexity.  We can use a separate
compiler <id> for each variant and simply have the platform
information modules for each vendor include the upstream one.

-Brad