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Subject: Re: Cygport bug: autoconf 2.6x check fails 2.61.
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Dean Scarff wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK that trailing period wasn't there with 2.60.  I have already fixed
this locally, but I see it hasn't got into CVS yet; it will soon.

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

Can you find a better solution?  PTC.


Yaakov

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