This is posed as a general question: Suppose you have a kernel and
a running system that is running that kernel, and you need to know with
which version of gcc it was compiled.  Is there a way to do this?
Note that I am *not* talking about what version of the kernel; I'm talking
about what version of gcc.

  > cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.23 (root@abit) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 
7.3 2.96-113)) #4 Sat Nov 29 22:51:37 PST 2003

  > gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)


Kenny McCormack wrote:
> This is posed as a general question: Suppose you have a kernel and
> a running system that is running that kernel, and you need to know with
> which version of gcc it was compiled.  Is there a way to do this?
> Note that I am *not* talking about what version of the kernel; I'm talking
> about what version of gcc.
> 

In article <lHmEb.12$QV5.7@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
emilio lazardo  <NotARealAddress@spam.this> wrote:
>  > cat /proc/version
>Linux version 2.4.23 (root@abit) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 
>7.3 2.96-113)) #4 Sat Nov 29 22:51:37 PST 2003

Yup!  That's the magic bullet.  I thought this information used to be
displayed by "uname", but that seems not to be the case.

>  > gcc -v
>Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
>gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)

I knew this, of course.  Note that on (the 11/19/03 - AFAIK, current
version) Knoppix, the kernel is compiled with a version different from the
(default) gcc (*).

(*) Yes, I know that gcc-2.95 is also there.