Re: Python 2.4 detection

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:

> address@hidden:~$ (/usr/bin/python2.4 --version || /usr/bin/python2.4 -V) 2>&1 
> | grep '[0-9]\.[0-9]'
> usage: /usr/bin/python2.4 [option] ... [-c cmd | -m mod | file | -] [arg] ...
> Python 2.4.4c0
>
> If we pipe this to "head -1", we get the usage message, since it
> includes 2.4.  My suggestion (which will not necessarily work for all
> programs) is to do a "grep -v" for the program name.  Here is a
> suggested patch:

this will certainly not work. lots of programs print arbitrary non 
program-name junk with --version. (try gcc --version)

how about grepping for ' [0-9]+\.[0-9]'. Can you test whether you can 
build with that fix?

cheers.
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