i'd like to execute a particular command if i'm running gcc version 3.2 for instance.

my approach is as follows:
GCC_VERSION := `gcc --version | head -1`

suppose the result of `gcc --version | head -1` was
gcc 3.2

then i'd like to perform the following:
ifeq ($(GCC_VERSION), "gcc 3.2")
...
endif

... i know the result of gcc --version is not as clean and elegant as "gcc 3.2", but just suppose it was -- in fact it's not even gcc that i want to do this for, but again suppose it was ... the ifeq doesn't work for me. any suggestions on how i can achieve what i'm attempting to do?

As far as I can understand, you are looking to run some statements if you have gcc 3.2.

On my machine, gcc --version | head -1 gives

Why dont you extract the 3.2.3 and then carry on with your make.

Your modified code would be

which will print out

3.2.3

Your ifeq statements looks fine. For more help on ifeq see

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/man...er/make_7.html

You could also checkout findstring option available for makefile to check for the required gcc --version.

vino