Re: Fallout (mostly runtime library-related) from GCC version number change

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> This lengthy patch attempts to address consequences of the change to
> the way the compiler itself determines its version number, upon a
> bunch of other top-level directories.  I erred in not checking the
> entire source tree for constructs similar to the ones dealt with in
> this patch; also in not thoroughly testing 'make install'.

FWIW, the patch looks ok to me, but I would not use $(shell ...); either 
you use

gcc_version := $(shell foobar)

or the usage of a GNU make extension is quite gratuitous because it will 
have more or less the same cost to use

gcc_version = `foobar`

Paolo