Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Re: libtool (was CVS and SSE)

[Sven M. H. <pe...@gm...>]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:41:40PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >> Brian Paul <br...@va...> writes:
> 
>  > I'm curious why revision 30500 doesn't work.  Do you know if the revision
>  > is stored as a number or a string?  I'd at least ask the libtool people why
>  > 30500 doesn't work.
> 
>  because libtool defines non negative as:
> 
>     0 | [1-9] | [1-9][0-9] | [1-9][0-9][0-9]
> 
>  i.e., it not only can't start with 0, it can only have three digits.  I
>  suspect this has to do with some funny test or expr implementation.  Or
>  perhaps they thought three digits would be enough.  Or maybe some sick
>  linker uses integers to store this info.
>  
>  Hmm... funky that '0 | [1-9]' bit...

I'd suspect this was quickly hacked in (explaining the superfluous 0) so they
probably did limit to three digits because they thought it would suffice.

-Sven

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