gcc46 --version incompatible with bsd.compiler.mk

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> $ gcc46 --version
> gcc46 (FreeBSD Ports Collection) 4.6.3
> 
> I think that the above should have just "gcc" instead of "gcc46".  The 
> version is reported separately from the compiler name.

I dug into this, and from what I can tell this is basically printing 
argv[0], that is, for the C++ frontend it'll say g++46.

(This is also consistent with GCC as the overall project being all
caps since 1999.)

On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Brooks Davis wrote:
> Alternatively I could alter bsd.compiler.mk to accept gcc[1-9][0-9] as
> gcc.  You could also set COMPILER_TYPE to override the check entirely.

That would be preferrable, I'd say.  Thanks!

Gerald