[CMake] Strange options for Sun Studio compiler

[Doug Henry]

The sun compilers also have aliases: suncc, sunCC, sunf95, etc.  Maybe those
names should be used instead?  I assume this is as easy as making a
Linux-sunCC.cmake file.

On 10/25/06, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Doug Henry wrote:
> > Before I commit anything, I would like to verify how cmake is doing its
> > compiler detection.  Is everything simply based on name?  I can have cc
> > in my path which is gcc, or I can set my path in a way that has cc from
> > sun studio.  Is cmake capable of telling the difference?  I have a
> > problem where I could have f77 from either set of compilers but each
> > requires different compiler options.  Can this be done using cmake?
>
> Alot of it is currently based on name, but you can actually run the
> compiler using EXEC_PROGRAM or EXECUTE_PROCESS to determine it's real
> identity.  Eventually we may compile/run a small source file that uses
> the preprocessor to identify the compiler but that is not yet done.
>
> -Brad
>
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