Re: autoconf macros, portable arithmetic

[Harald Dunkel]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Why not do something like this instead?  This suffices for 4-part
> version numbers but it's easy to increase this.
>
> # Example inputs
> a=3.5.37
> b=3.5.371

If you put some other values here, then you get

0.007 > 0.42


Regards

Harri