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Subject:  Re: Cygport bug: autoconf 2.6x check fails 2.61.
Date:  Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:36:32 +0900
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>   I don't see why both of those regexes wouldn't successfully match
> '2.61' already.  Your patch looks like it's trying to make the regex
> accept "2.6" with no second digit after the decimal place as well.
> Can you perhaps clarify?

Oh dear.  Apparently MIME inline attachments + gmane + ezmlm isn't a
good combination.  There was an explanation ;)

In short, the grep + cut doesn't quite work like it used to because
there is a trailing period.  The case glob (which is not a POSIX regex
under the Bourne shell, right?) matches "x2.61." as well as "x2.60",
which is what we want.

Either way the whole thing isn't a robust check, autoconf's manual
doesn't make any claims to insert that particular string.

-- 
Dean


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