> -----Original Message----- > From: Ruud Vlaming [mailto:r...@betaresearch.nl] > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:39 AM > To: Weddington, Eric > Cc: avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org > Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] no avr/lib/avr25/attiny13a/Makefile.in > > On Thursday 29 January 2009 05:54, you wrote: > > > Yes, the version checking in the bootstrap script is > > quite stupid. Right now it looks for specific versions only. > > It would be ideal if we could look for a range. > > > > > The question is: is this really needed? Can the > > > script not simply issue a warning and go on? > > > > I'm certainly open to changing it. Can you provide a patch? > > Yes, but first we have to decide, what should the patch do? > Imho that patch should not block execution at all, only warn > for a possile mismatch of version numbers. > > The point is, until we have a firm spec how all applications > should emit their version nummers over de command line, > there will not be a stable solution for version number > comparison. > > I have written a script which does a reasonable job for in most > situations for version numbers up to three level version numbers. > However, this is quite lengthy, and still is not bullitproof. > I think this is not adequate for this situation. > > If you agree with me that a simple version comparison with a > two digit number, emmiting a warning only is sufficient in this > case i can make the patch.
I'm ok with say that we require some verion >= X. Anything < X should fail. Anything >= X should be allowed. With X being the lowest version that we check for. _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
