Re: Patch to check for required programs when building from source checkout

[Kamil Dudka]

On Tuesday 14 October 2008 15:27:54 Eric Blake wrote:
> On the other hand, autoconf's m4_version_compare (which is what automake
> uses to determine if you are using a new enough version, when you request
> 1.10a), treats 1.10a > 1.10.1.  In other words, 1.10a is the alpha in
> preparation for 1.11, while 1.10.1 is the .1 patch release in the older
> 1.10 series.  Maybe this is a bug in filevercmp?
Maybe. Feel free to write a patch - I can run some regression tests on it.

Currently the char "a" is not considered as "alpha" in filevercmp, but as a 
letter "a" - there is no higher abstraction then individual chars. The goal 
of filevercmp was to be independent on any particular version system.


Kamil