Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes: >>% printf 'automake-1.10%s\n' .1 a|sort -V >>automake-1.10a >>automake-1.10.1
>IMHO this means automake is muddying the waters by giving >something-newer-than automake-1.10.1 the version string "1.10a". Or that sort -V is incorrect. Note that Perl's Sort::Versions thinks 1.10a is newer than 1.10.1. Eric Blake mentioned that m4_version_compare also thinks so. It's really not good to have different tools disagree about version ordering so I suggest reconciling sort -V against Sort::Versions, autoconf and any other version-string-comparing tool you can find to see what the consensus is. >>Wouldn't it be simpler to include a file bootstrap.required_progs >Ready to write the patch? I think I pretty much wrote it in the earlier message ;-p. I don't have a current copyright waiver from my employer so I would need to get that sorted out. It may be easier for you to just note the list of programs I mentioned and write the few lines of shell script yourself. However, I will see if I can get the legal side fixed. -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
