I just started doing a 9.3 to 10.2 migration of a bunch of applications and discovered that some of the options used to generate the applications were slightly different. I just know that this has been covered before, but I could not find a definitive method or set of methods to use to determine if the old GCC compiler or the new CLANG compiler is being used. Could the ports wizards (and/or autoconf experts) help me a bit?

(Aside: the clang compiler diagnostics and warnings are very thorough and quite clear. Nicely done, especially the addition of the information about the flag to turn this warning off. I also like the pragmas to control warnings and the push/pop pragma facility. This may have been in the GCC compiler but I missed it.)

1. If the application is to be generated via the PORT infrastructure, what do you put in the port Makefile to determine if CLANG (10.2) or GCC (9.3) is being used?


Something like below. Note: the examples below are a bit contrived, but the idea is to set
   some MAKE variable to different values depending on CLANG or GCC in use.

   .if defined(CC_IS_CLANG)
   MYFLAGS+= -Wall -Werror -Wno-error=unused
   .else
   .if defined(CC_IS_GCC)
   MYFLAGS+= -Wall -Werror -Wno-unused
   .endif
   .endif



2.  A simple test for configure that checks the for the CLANG compiler:

    # Check for programs
    AC_PROG_CC
    # we may need to add this to the configure macro set?
    AC_PROG_CLANG
    if test "$ac_cv_using_clang" = yes; then
      CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall -Werror -Wno-error=unused"
   else
     if test "$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu" = yes; then
       CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall -Werror -Wno-unused"
    fi;
   fi;

It could even be something simpler if the AC_PROG_CC configure macro sets, for example, the $ac_gcc_version shell variable with a value that indicates CLANG in use then the following
   would be useful:


   if test "$ac_gcc_version" -gt 999  ; then
      ...
   fi;





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