Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.

[Neil Booth]

Martin Buchholz wrote:-

> >>>>> "D" == DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> >> My natural instinct is that the gcc community needs to do more about 
> >> this than to tut-tut, but I have no concrete suggestions.
> 
> D> My suggestion is to do nothing.  If we mis-detect icc as gcc and that
> D> causes build problems (rendering icc unusable), so be it.
> 
> I just noticed this option in the man page:
> 
>        -no-gcc        Do  not predefine __GNUC__, __GNUC_MINOR__,
>                       and __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__
> 
> so there's at least an easy workaround for the user.

That switch has been removed.

Neil.