Just got a report from Fedora build system that libapreq2-2.09-rc1
failed to build. The error was:
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build/version_check.pl failed: automake version 1.10 unsupported (1.6.1
or greater is required).
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Now, 1.10 _is_ greater than 1.6.1, however, the script does:
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if ($saw =~ /^(\d+)(\.(\d+))$/) {
$fail = $saw < $version;
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So, numeric comparison is done, even if $version isn't really numeric
(i.e. "1.6.1"). I think we should have:
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if ($saw =~ /^(\d+)(\.(\d+))$/ and $version =~ /^(\d+)(\.(\d+))$/) {
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Otherwise, the comparison is bound to fail.
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Bojan
