X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f X-Authentication-Warning: itservs.wilkes.edu: apache set sender to fdonahoe AT wilkes DOT edu using -f Message-ID: <1111800118.4244b936c8891@webmail.wilkes.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:21:58 -0500 From: fdonahoe AT wilkes DOT edu To: Workers List Subject: Recent change in VERSION format breaks scripts. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2 X-Originating-IP: 146.94.1.209 Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This mail was sent through Wilkes Webmail: http://webmail.wilkes.edu Wilkes Webmail is using IMP: http://horde.org/imp/