Unparsable gcc version string? [WAS: lily 1.4.15]

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Peter Chubb <address@hidden> writes:

> This is in the stepmake part.
> Looks a bit weird.

Thanks.  Actually, it looks fine, but

> : wombat ; gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.1.1 20020606 (Debian prerelease)

AAARG!  How is anyone (being a humble configure script) supposed to
pick `3.1.1<SPACE>20020606' to be the version string from that?  I
could live with something like

    gcc (GNU CC) 3.1.1-20020606-debian-prerelease

or even

    gcc (GNU CC) 3.1.1-20020606 (Debian prerelease)

I think maybe someone should file a bug to the Debian gcc package.
LilyPond will not be the only package to verify the version of the
compiler.

Greetings,
Jan.

xs3 $ gcc --version
2.7.2.1
peder $ gcc --version
2.95.4
$ bison --version
bison (GNU Bison) 1.35
$ flex --version
flex version 2.5.4
$ guile --version
Guile 1.5.6

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