is there a good reason that some ports use

  HAVE_EGCS!=	${CC} --version | egrep "^(2\.[89]|egcs)" ; echo

yet the vax uses

  HAVE_EGCS!=	${CC} --version | egrep "^(2\.8|2\.9[0-4]|egcs)" ; echo 

and the x68k does this

  HAVE_EGCS!=	${CC} --version | egrep "^(2\.8|egcs)" ; echo

it seems to me that these should all be the same, and that some of
them have just drifted from...disuse?

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