Leonid Bloch <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On 1/8/19 11:31 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> I'd leave it hard-coded. Replacing a few trivial defines by an arguably
>> less trivial script doesn't feel like an improvement. In this case, it
>> doesn't even save lines.
>
> As I've said, I'm fine with that. The autogeneration sounds the right
> thing to do here, as the table is autogenertaed anyway, but indeed it is
> already there, explained, and even the script for generating it appears
> in the comments for reproducibility.
>
>>
>> I'm not sure I'd use shell for this, but since you already wrote it and
>> it works...
>>
>
> If you've noticed, the original script was in AWK. But to be as generic
> as possible, I didn't write the generation script in AWK because even
> AWK is not guaranteed to be installed on the build system. The only
> interpreted language that is guaranteed to be there is shell (most basic
> shell) because .configure itself needs it.
Well,
$ grep -w awk configure
maj=`libgcrypt-config --version | awk -F . '{print $1}'`
min=`libgcrypt-config --version | awk -F . '{print $2}'`
The build also requires Python.
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