Re: [E-devel] Re: E CVS: libs/imlib2 mej

[Christian K. <kre...@in...>]

"Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:59:46 +0200 Christian Kreibich
> <kre...@in...> babbled profusely:
> 
> > I don't really care as long as we have a definite standpoint regarding
> > the versions. Personally, I wouldn't mind upgrading, but well. At the
> > moment those poeple who have ac 2.50 and am 1.4 are in trouble. ac 2.5
> > and am 1.5 works. Raster, I assume you have 2.13 and am 1.4, and I guess
> > that works too.
> 
> yup. that works just fine. :) has for quite a long time. :)
> 
> > Right? So why don't we add a check to autogen.sh for those critical
> > versions and abort. Those people can then downgrade ac or upgrade am.
> 
> thats what i was suggesting. :) tho the check isn't easy as piss... ned to
> re-mangle the output form the string to numerics and then into somehting u can
> do > or < comparisons on :)

Well since here we can be specific, how about something like

#! /bin/sh

(automake --version | grep 1.4) && (autoconf --version | grep 2.5)

if test $? = 1; then
    echo "Happy building ..";
else
    echo "Trouble!";
fi

for now? I'll let the real shell hackers on this list figure that out :)

-- Christian.
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