Also detect the CXX_target enviroment vairiable for compiler version

build/compiler_version.py

 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 """Compiler version checking tool for gcc
 
 Print gcc version as XY if you are running gcc X.Y.*.
 This is used to tweak build flags for gcc 4.4.
 """
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     result = re.match(r"(\d+)\.(\d+)", gcc_output)
     return result.group(1) + result.group(2)
   except Exception, e:
     if gcc_error:
       sys.stderr.write(gcc_error)
     print >> sys.stderr, "compiler_version.py failed to execute:", compiler
     print >> sys.stderr, e
     return ""
 
+def GetVersionFromEnvironment(compiler_env):
+  """ Returns the version of compiler
+
+  If the compiler was set by the given environment variable and exists,
+  return its version, otherwise None is returned.
+  """
+  cxx = os.getenv(compiler_env, None)
+  if cxx:
+    cxx_version = GetVersion(cxx)
+    if cxx_version != "":
+      return cxx_version
+  return None
+
 def main():
-  # Check if CXX environment variable exists and
-  # if it does use that compiler.
-  cxx = os.getenv("CXX", None)
-  if cxx:
-    cxxversion = GetVersion(cxx)
-    if cxxversion != "":
-      print cxxversion
-      return 0
-  else:
-    # Otherwise we check the g++ version.
-    gccversion = GetVersion("g++")
-    if gccversion != "":
-      print gccversion
-      return 0
+  # Check if CXX_target or CXX environment variable exists an if it does use
+  # that compiler.
+  # TODO: Fix ninja (see http://crbug.com/140900) instead and remove this code
+  # In ninja's cross compile mode, the CXX_target is target compiler, while
+  # the CXX is host. The CXX_target needs be checked first, though the target
+  # and host compiler have different version, there seems no issue to use the
+  # target compiler's version number as gcc_version in Android.
+  cxx_version = GetVersionFromEnvironment("CXX_target")
+  if cxx_version:
+    print cxx_version
+    return 0
+
+  cxx_version = GetVersionFromEnvironment("CXX")
+  if cxx_version:
+    print cxx_version
+    return 0
+
+  # Otherwise we check the g++ version.
+  gccversion = GetVersion("g++")
+  if gccversion != "":
+    print gccversion
+    return 0
 
   return 1
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
   sys.exit(main())