Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
[funky automake version numbers]
>When in doubt, use sort -V from the latest coreutils:
>
> $ printf 'automake-1.10%s\n' .1 a|sort -V
> automake-1.10.1
> automake-1.10a
That's not the result I get:
% printf 'automake-1.10%s\n' .1 a|sort -V
automake-1.10a
automake-1.10.1
% sort --version | head -n 1
sort (GNU coreutils) 7.0.11-5996-dirty
The code was pulled from git just now.
>I don't want to maintain yet another package-specific file/script,
>so I've been toying with the idea of adding generic code to
>bootstrap that would automatically determine more prerequisites
>like this. E.g., if it sees that gperf will be used by this
>package, then it'd ensure it's usable.
Wouldn't it be simpler to include a file bootstrap.required_progs containing a
list one per line and then have something like
if test -e bootstrap.required_progs; then
for p in `cat bootstrap.required_progs`; do
if ! $p --help >/dev/null; then
echo You must install $p
exit 1
fi
done
done
Autodetecting them seems a bit baroque, but I guess you could grep -r or
something...
--
Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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