One of the reasons that I was advocating using the globbing feature of
"case" was to avoid the nasty sed expression.
Just do:
case "`uname -r`" in
3.4*)
disable-threads
;;
esac
Cheers,
-g
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:36:35AM -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> The check isn't working right on on FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE.
>
> Here is what the code to get the version string yields because
> `uname -r` isn't matched by the sed script.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] httpd-2.0]$ uname -r | sed -e 's/\(.\)\.\(.\)\..*/\1\2/'
> 3.4-RELEASE
>
> test simply bails out with this error message:
>
> test: 3.4-RELEASE: bad number
>
> I could add another step to the pipeline to standardize other version
> string formats
>
> uname -r | sed -e 's/\(.\)\.\(.\)\..*/\1\2/' | sed -e
> 's/\(.\)\.\(.\)\-.*/\1\2/'
>
> Ryan (or anybody else), what is a real-life example of `uname -r` output which
> the existing sed substitution handles? I'll make sure that example as
> well as my 3.4-RELEASE example works before committing a change.
>
> Thanks...
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