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Date:	Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:21:58 -0500
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Subject:	Recent change in VERSION format breaks scripts.
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While watching the configure script scroll past during the
first phase of compiling the recent port of sed 3.1.4 I noticed
an oddity.  This is it from config.log :

> configure:8801: checking for bison
> configure:8817: found /dev/c/djg/bin/bison
> configure:8827: result: bison
> configure:8840: checking version of bison
> configure:8849: result: v. ?.??, bad

From the command line

C:\djg\gnu\sed-4.1-4>bison --version
bison (GNU Bison) '2.0'  (DJGPP port 2005-01-11 (r1))

we notice that the version number 2.0 is single quoted.  A trivial
change for humam use but enough to break the configure script.
Refering to the file `configure.orig' we find that the variable
VERSION is defined

configure.orig: 1670  VERSION='2.0'

The single quotes are retained when the reference to DJGPP is
added in 

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