Re: Fix STEPMAKE_GET_VERSION for OpenBSD

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Op woensdag 16-12-2009 om 11:40 uur [tijdzone +1100], schreef
address@hidden:
> >>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Kilian <address@hidden> writes:

> This is very complicated.  Why not just something like:

It /is/ very complicated.

> {  lilypond -V || lilypond --version; }  2>&1 |
>       sed -n -e 's/^[^0-9.]*\([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'

For one, swapping -V and --version order like you did here barfs
with gs and fontforge.

> If there could be more than one version then this:

I think we must cater for that, debian often duplicates version numbers
in gcc, eg.

> {  lilypond -V || lilypond --version; }  2>&1 |
>       sed -n '/[0-9][0-9*\.[0-9][0-9.]*/{
>           s/^[^0-9.]*\([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'
>           q
>       }'
> should do the trick.

Yes, one of these might work (swapping --version and -V order back).
The question is if we want to try/risk that.  Not everyone on weird
systems send bug reports.  Some just are annoyed configure fails
and give up.

Jan.


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