RE: [Java-gnome-developer] configure changes prevent discovering of gcj version

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

> At first I want to say I'm glad to see more libraries being added, now
> java-gnome depends on gtkhtml too ;)

Please stand by for the next email (soon).

> Unfortunately after 0.8.2 the configure script was amended, 
> and the line
> that is supposed to discover gcj version no longer works...

The reason this no longer works is that I had to start with
configure.in in order to add support for libgtkhtml.  configure.in
is used for the input to generate the configure script.  We
need to reapply you patch to the configure.in script.  If you
have a chance, please submit a new patch or hopefully I will
be able to get to it sometime tonight.

> It was previously patched by me to read:
>  gcj_version=`$GCJ --version 2>&1 | grep GCC | sed 's/gcj (GCC)
> \([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\).*/\1.\2.\3/'`
> 
> After 0.8.2 it reads:
> gcj_version=`$GCJ --version 2>&1 | grep GCC | sed 's/gcj (GCC)
> \(0-9*\)\.\(0-9*\)\.\(0-9*\).*/\1.\2.\3/'` which fails to discover gcj
> version on Redhat9: perhaps we have different versions of sed which
> behave differently? Or maybe this was a typo...If it's not 
> please could
> someone explain me why this changes were made?